The IMF: Once the solution, now part of the problem

Misunderstanding EM debt

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The International Monetary Fund's current leadership is showing an increasing degree of arbitrariness in its lending decisions and displaying a serious misunderstanding of the emerging market debt market (and finance in general), harming EM economies’ financing costs and long-term wellbeing.

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