... Triumphalism (and Schadenfreude) in magazines such as The Economist was rampant. Indeed, for many in the West' the hubris of the Asian way' was getting its cum-uppance. Wall Street, Washington and the international financial institutions initially saw the Asian crisis as a window of opportunity'. Michel Camdessus, managing director of the IMF, saw it as a blessing in disguise' that would sweep ... both the global and national levels. At the global level, and notwithstanding the importance that they still place on the self inflicted nature of most emerging market problems, even Washingto...

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... representatives of American Right and Left to launch an impressive protest rally against the IMF on the occasion of its annual meeting in Washington D.C. on April 16/17, 2000, following a similar protest against the WTO a year earlier in Seattle, Washington. Loud cries of "Break the Bank, Defund the Fund, Dump the Debt- were heard during these demonstrations. Patrick Bond eloquently summarized the ... and the Fund anywhere in the world, in Australia, Japan, Germany, and Canada. Their intensity has declined considerably, though, as was most evident during the latest of these demonstratio...

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... states and hinder the ability of the nation to give appropriate welfare to the citizens. Since the beginning of the century, the free financial reforms of the World Bank, the Washington consensus, and the IMF have been a subject of criticism. The condemnation of the neo-liberalization structure has been that the markets reforms have not generated a sustainable growth, not reduce the ... ...

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