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The IMF and World Bank: a truly gruesome twosome

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, set up in 1944, now look sclerotic and ineffectual, says Jonathan Compton.

by: Jonathan Compton
26 Jun 2020
Pakistani soldiers on camels © AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan has borrowed from the IMF 22 times since 1958 © Getty

Pakistani soldiers on camels © AFP via Getty Images

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