Darini Rajasingham Senanayake
South Asia’s Arab Spring is here, amid global Cold War tensions and slow tectonic shifts in power and wealth east, to Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, hastened and heightened by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Category Archives: IMF
The IMF Hands in Pakistan & Sri Lanka: Conjectures
A Pacific Island Pal
ONE: There is a very good analysis of the IMF by Paul Masson in “The IMF: Victim of its own success or institutional failures?” published in International Journal, Autumn 2007. Its focus is on how to reform the IMF and the problems involved, which recognises the need to reform the IMF. How successful that has been is open to debate.
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