re: Fwd: BT: In defence of the IMF (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread James Devine
Yes, absolutely! Let's stop criticizing the IMF. Criticizing the IMF is like criticizing Vinnie, the big guy with brass knuckles who comes and breaks your legs if you don't pay the "vig" to the local loan shark. We should criticize the sharks instead! The target of our ire should be financial

Fwd: BT: In defence of the IMF (fwd)

1998-02-26 Thread Sid Shniad
BUSINESS TIMES SINGAPORE 1998/02/24 IMF-bashing will not help Asia By Vikram Khanna BACK in 1988, as a relatively green IMF staffer, I attended a conference in Chicago. I found myself seated next to an Argentine academic and I struck up a conversation with