I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.
By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.
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