The @IMFNews & @WorldBank #AnnualMeetings22 are almost over and they left many of us astonished by the unwillingness of the institutions to change in the face of the deep and painful crises we live in.
A 🧵of disconcerting quotes:
@eurodad @brettonwoodspr @OxfamIFIs @ActionAid
A 🧵of disconcerting quotes:
@eurodad @brettonwoodspr @OxfamIFIs @ActionAid
"The IMF is indeed supporting biodiversity, for instance we have economists that are able to measure the monetary value of an elephant and the value of a whale."
#KristalinaGeorgieva at the Townhall with CSOs. meetings.imf.org/en/2022/Annual…
@LeiaLdn @JonSward @niramer24
#KristalinaGeorgieva at the Townhall with CSOs. meetings.imf.org/en/2022/Annual…
@LeiaLdn @JonSward @niramer24
@martinwolf_ responding to activists demanding debt cancellation and reparation:
"Is there security?"
@ifresnillo @David_McNair @tim_jones6 @patmirandaBol
commondreams.org/news/2022/10/1…
"Is there security?"
@ifresnillo @David_McNair @tim_jones6 @patmirandaBol
commondreams.org/news/2022/10/1…
"The ++ imp thing to solve the #debtcrisis would be a mechanism to discipline on debtor countries emerging from debt restructuring so that they cannot go back to their bad old habits".
Lee Buchheit at event on debt restructuring
@andrea_shalal
meetings.imf.org/en/2022/Annual…
Lee Buchheit at event on debt restructuring
@andrea_shalal
meetings.imf.org/en/2022/Annual…
“The IMF is doing many things to help poor people, for instance we do things about the SDGs”.
Rodrigo Cerda, Chief of Expenditure Division, Fiscal Affairs Depart, IMF
imf.org/en/About/Partn…
@SurRuiz @IsabelOrtizUN @MattiKohonen @FinTrCo @latindadd @EmmaBurgisser @abdo_nabil86
Rodrigo Cerda, Chief of Expenditure Division, Fiscal Affairs Depart, IMF
imf.org/en/About/Partn…
@SurRuiz @IsabelOrtizUN @MattiKohonen @FinTrCo @latindadd @EmmaBurgisser @abdo_nabil86
“Welcome to the real world, we don’t live in paradise” and
“do no harm, what is it, a medical thing? I don’t see what it has got to do with IMF fiscal consolidation”.
At event with Chatham House rules.
@Mskaydee @NezirSinani @shereent
“do no harm, what is it, a medical thing? I don’t see what it has got to do with IMF fiscal consolidation”.
At event with Chatham House rules.
@Mskaydee @NezirSinani @shereent
"The market is mispricing women as assets".
At World Bank event: Empowering Women to Unleash Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development: Should Development Policy Be Feminist?
@RSaalbrink @FriederikeStrub @Emilia_Equidad
At World Bank event: Empowering Women to Unleash Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development: Should Development Policy Be Feminist?
@RSaalbrink @FriederikeStrub @Emilia_Equidad
“We are in a crisis, but it’s not a debt crisis”.
World Bank's Marcelo Estevao at CSPF event: International financial architecture reform for a fair debt crisis resolution
@kitondowe @debtjustice @ifresnillo @andrea_shalal
World Bank's Marcelo Estevao at CSPF event: International financial architecture reform for a fair debt crisis resolution
@kitondowe @debtjustice @ifresnillo @andrea_shalal
https://mobile.twitter.com/kitondowe/status/1581038220498067457
. I forgot the hashtag.
#blamethevictim
#blamethevictim
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