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This paper assess how priorities of the IMF’s membership have evolved over the past two decades, by using text mining techniques on a unique dataset combining IMFC communiqués and constituency statements. Our results reveal significant variation in priorities across time and constituencies. Statements can be characterized by the weight which they place on three key priorities: (i) growth; (ii) debt and development; and (iii) crisis management and quota reform. Sentiment analysis techniques also show that addressing climate change is a topic which is viewed positively by an increasing number of constituencies.

Macroeconomics --- Economics: General --- International Economics --- Environmental Economics --- Natural Resource Extraction --- Financial Risk Management --- Foreign Exchange --- Informal Economy --- Underground Econom --- Climate --- Natural Disasters and Their Management --- Global Warming --- Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction: General --- Financial Crises --- Crisis Management --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Economics of specific sectors --- Climate change --- Extractive industries --- Environment --- Mining sector --- Economic sectors --- Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 --- Financial crises --- Crisis management --- Currency crises --- Informal sector --- Economics --- Climatic changes --- Mineral industries --- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 --- United States