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Lebanon is a severe case of subordinate financialization that must avoid the IMF
9 March 2020 - by Costas Lapavitsas, Jude Kadri
Costas Lapavitsas is an economist from Greece. He presently teaches Economics at the University of London and was elected as a member of the Greek Parliament for SYRIZA in January 2015. He left to form Popular Unity in August 2015, when SYRIZA (...) -
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 5)
Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
4 March 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...) -
Debt in Times of Economic Crisis
2 March 2020 - by Ahilan Kadirgamar
Debt relief is now a call at all levels of state and society in Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister recently requested a three-year moratorium on debt repayments to India, the Government earlier announced a debt repayment moratorium of one year for (...) -
IMF: Inhuman at the micro and macro levels
27 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
Hiruni, a fisherman’s wife, who has to manage her household (of five people) with an income of about 2.5 euros (= 500 Sri Lankan rupees) per day, is heavily indebted. In order to increase her household income, she borrowed 50,000 rupees (250 (...) -
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 4)
The WB assists those in power in a witch-hunting context
26 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...) -
Can the IMF Be Trusted on Argentina?
21 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
After the IMF mission to Argentina agreed with President Fernandez that the foreign debt is unsustainable, international debt campaigner Eric Toussaint tells teleSUR that the Fund is not to be (...) -
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 3)
Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
19 February 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
Series : Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF: 70th anniversary -
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 2)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF): an ABC
12 February 2020 - by CADTM
In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...) -
IMF and World Bank complicit in ‘austerity as new normal’, despite availability of alternatives
12 February 2020 - by Bretton Woods Project
Summary Austerity projected to affect 5.8 billion people by 2021 UN offers handbook on alternative financing options IMF and World Bank continue to cling to unnecessary and harmful fiscal orthodoxy In October, a report by Matthew Cummins (...) -
After the Argentina debacle, the IMF endorses weakening capital controls in Ecuador
20 December 2019 - by Lara Merling
The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity. Over the past year, a rebranded IMF returned to Latin America with promises of loan agreements that would be different than the dreaded (...) -
Argentina: facing another debt crisis
18 December 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
After four years of brutal neoliberal policies under Mauricio Macri as President, Argentina is again facing a major debt crisis. Let us remember that when Macri started his mandate in December 2015 he accepted all the injunctions formulated by (...) -
The accomplices to austerity are also responsible for human rights violations
21 November 2019 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
The question is not whether austerity plays a role in violating human rights but how big a role it plays: how much of an impact it has on indicators such as mortality rates, employment, equality, health, housing and levels of violence. (...) -
Corporate debt, fiscal stimulus and the next recession
23 October 2019 - by Michael Roberts
The debt owed by corporations in the major economies has risen since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. With global growth slowing and the prospect rising of an outright global recession recurring ten years after the last one, the debt (...) -
Does BRICS Banking offer an Alternative to the IMF and World Bank? Pessimistic Signals from South Africa
21 October 2019 - by Patrick Bond
1. Introduction After their 1944 birth at a New Hampshire hotel, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank turned 75 years old this year, long past a reasonable retirement age. For the sake of global financial management, most (...) -
Bretton Woods Institutions’ neoliberal over-reach leaves global governance in the gutter
18 October 2019 - by Patrick Bond
This week, the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will again be held in Washington, DC, with back-slapping now that the Bretton Woods twins have reached age 75 (they were founded at a New Hampshire hotel in 1944). (...) -
Ecuador: Brutal economic decisions (“paquetazo”)
11 October 2019 - by Diego Borja Cornejo
With a stubborn position that borders on political suicide, the government of Lenin Moreno, during the seventh day of massive and combative Popular Unemployment, has preferred to repress thousands of indigenous, students, settlers and workers (...) -
Tunisia’s Truth Commission vs France, the IMF and World Bank
8 September 2019 - by Olfa Belhassine
On July 16, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) sent two memorandums calling first on France and then on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to apologize and pay reparations to Tunisian victims. It says they all have a “share (...) -
South Africa: The support of the World Bank and the IMF to the Apartheid regime
29 April 2019 - by Eric Toussaint, Patrick Bond
The World Bank and the IMF were accomplice of the apartheid for decades. They violated the UN embargo against the racist regime at the helm of South Africa. Between 1958 – 1968, the World Bank loans made possible the financing of the “pro-White” (...) -
A delicate moment
17 April 2019 - by Michael Roberts
The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an outright recession is getting much higher. The IMF economists cut their outlook for global growth to the lowest (...) -
Crisis deepens as global South debt payments increase by 85%
9 April 2019 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
- External debt payments by developing country governments grew by 85%, as a proportion of government revenue, between 2010 and 2018 For the countries with the highest payments, in two-thirds public spending is falling The largest cuts were in (...) -
Series: Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination
Varoufakis’s secret negotiations and his disappointments with China, Obama and the IMF
20 February 2019 - by Eric Toussaint
After Part Seven which analysed the first capitulation on 20 February 2015, this eighth part of the series will focus on the failure of the talks with the Chinese government, the continued secret diplomacy, relations with the IMF and the failure (...) -
Universalism … really?
15 January 2019 - by Francine Mestrum
With all the paradigmatic changes the World Bank has been promoting in the field of social policies, one element never changed in the past thirty years. Social policies were meant for the poor, governments had to find the best ways to target (...) -
South Africa searches for a financial parachute, now that a $170 billion foreign debt cliff looms
18 December 2018 - by Patrick Bond
Johannesburg – This week’s hush-hush visit by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde to Pretoria (between stops in Ghana and Angola) is mysterious. In contrast to last week’s IMF press briefing claim – “Madame Lagarde will (...) -
Is Pakistan on the way to living without the IMF?
1 December 2018 - by Abdul Khaliq
Pakistan is perhaps the only country in South Asia with a history of repeated engagements with the IMF – 21 loan agreements since 1959. The last one was concluded in September 2016. Despite that, Pakistan’s economic woes have not been resolved. (...) -
Corporate debt – the IMF gets worried
20 November 2018 - by Michael Roberts
The IMF does not pull any punches in [its latest post on the IMF blog->https://blogs.imf.org/2018/11/15/sounding-the-alarm-on-leveraged-lending. It is really worried that so-called ‘leveraged loans’ are reaching dangerous levels globally. These (...)
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