Theft

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jul 16 16:30:56 PDT 1998


Tom Lehman wrote:


>Doug, let me get this straight. You have reason to believe that as much
>as 1/3 of the funds of the IMF and World Bank that are being loaned to
>certain countries are being stolen.

A World Bank anthropologist told me that about the Philippines. I mentioned it to Jeff Winters of Northwestern - who exposed the World Bank's adoption of Suharto's fraudulent poverty stats - and he thought you could assume the same about Indonesia. Those are 2 notorious kleptocracies, though.

Doug



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