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With the world economy reeling from the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, nations must do all they can to promote a recovery that also fights against the climate-change crisis, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.
How IMF programmes can increase corruption
Corruption is one of the greatest obstacles to economic development. It deprives nations of income to invest into public services, with adverse implications for education, health, well-being, and prosperity. The Global Economic Forum estimates that corruption costs the public coffers US$2.6 trillion a year. Why is corruption so difficult to control? Scholars have long blamed...
How years of IMF prescriptions have hurt West African health systems
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. But its policy proposals don’t always yield positive results for the countries it purports to help. For instance, critics have argued that the IMF inhibits government spending on public health and diverts resources from the health sector to repay external debt. We set out to...
The IMF is showing some hypocrisy on inequality
“I hope people will listen now” said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month. Lagarde was alluding to the wave of reactionary populism that’s currently sweeping the developed economies, and was harking back to her speech at Davos in 2013 when she warned that economic “inequality is cor...
Why South Africa shouldn’t turn to the IMF for help
Two men sit at the roadside in the hope of being offered work. South Africa’s unemployment is moving towards 30%. The view that South Africa should look towards the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be rescued from the unfolding economic meltdown seems to be growing by the day. It has been touted in the most unlikeliest of places. Even the new Finance Minister Mal...
Haiti’s deadly riots fueled by anger over decades of austerity and foreign interference
At least seven people are dead and Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant has resigned after weeks of violent protests in Haiti that were sparked by a sudden increase of fuel prices. Demonstrations began on July 6, when the Haitian government said that gas prices would go up 38 percent to US$4.60 per gallon because the International Monetary Fund, a major Haitian creditor...
COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system
To stem the economic fallout from COVID-19, developed countries have injected an unprecedented US$9 trillion into their economies. The International Monetary Fund has recommended sustained fiscal support, emphasizing greater spending on health care and environmental protection projects. Meanwhile, countries in the “global south” – broadly, low- and middle-income countries in...
IMF says it cares about inequality. But will it change its ways?
The IMF headquarters in Washington DC. Shutterstock The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become increasingly infatuated by the negative consequences of excessive inequality. This new-found mission is laudable, but neglects the manifold ways its own policy advice contributed to growing income inequality. As lender of last resort, the IMF provides countries in economic t...
Oxfam Says IMF Loans Force Spending Cuts That Exacerbate Poverty
The vast majority of International Monetary Fund loans extended during the Covid-19 pandemic have suggested or demanded spending cuts that would worsen poverty and inequality, charity group Oxfam says. Seventy-six of the fund’s 91 loans since March have sought belt tightening, according to Oxfam. The result could be deep cuts to public healthcare and pensions; wage freezes a...
The IMF is hurting countries it claims to help
Mark Weisbrot The fund’s loan agreement with Ecuador will worsen unemployment and poverty Ecuadorian police arrest a protestor during a demonstration against president Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allies – cause to people in the rest of the world, they probably think of warfare. H...
Developing countries are sinking in a world awash in cash. Here’s what the US can do.
US President Joe Biden looks toward Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Biden administration has inherited a crisis in poor and middle-income countries, where the economic fallout from COVID-19 has pushed hundreds of millions of people into extreme poverty. It’s a crisis that cries out for global leadership, a...
Turning back the Poverty Clock: How will COVID-19 impact the world’s poorest people?
Homi Kharas and Kristofer Hamel Wednesday, May 6, 2020 Chief Operating Officer – World Data Lab Using the methods described in the World Poverty Clock, we ask what will happen to the number of poor people in the world—those living in households with less than $1.90 per person per day in actual or imputed spending—given this new economic forecast. We take the dif...