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 trusted.
Source : Telesur
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (608)
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Bank of the South, international context and alternatives
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Lebanon en route to an illegitimate debt
29 August 2006, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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Breaking away as the only way out
10 August 2006, by Eric Toussaint
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The creation of the Bretton Woods institutions
25 July 2006, by Eric Toussaint
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The World Bank : oiling the wheels of corruption in Chad
5 December 2005, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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Debt: New challenges
10 October 2005, by Eric Toussaint
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The debt: time to change a losing team
29 September 2005, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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IMF threat on G8 proposal of debt cancellation
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Indonesia: History of a bankruptcy orchestrated by IMF and the World Bank
10 July 2005, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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The tsunami day by day. Drop the debt!
5 July 2005, by Eric Toussaint , Damien Millet
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