Tag: International Monetary Fund

The Gaza Strip − why the history of the densely populated enclave is key to understanding the current conflict

There is nothing free for the poor and middle class”

Opinion

UK prime minister forced from office amid economic turmoil, chaos in parliament and a party in disarray

  The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need

This is not the time for budgetary largesse or freebies at public expense to all and sundry the country can ill-afford from strapped public finances

The weaponisation of trade, the imposition of sanctions on sovereign foreign reserves and exclusion from SWIFT by the US could trigger a faster de-dollarisation among countries having the

  IMF programmes run the risk of having too many conditions. This may drive countries into financial disaster. And back to the IMF again

The past decades are littered with an array of botched decisions by government or government services which have cost tens of billions of Rupees to the State. No

An international agreement that addresses only one-quarter of the problem suggests that the alleged “solution” is far less effective that the hype surrounding it

This is not the time for governments to arrogantly act as if they have all the answers on how to manage and fight the pandemic on their own

The economic situation is dire, yet all traditional parties keep on having the same “let us pay them more with money we do not have” reflexes. This path will

Interview: Manou Bheenick – Former Finance minister & governor of BOM

By Sameer Sharma

By Mrinal Roy