IMF special ops team in Argentina

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 12 08:31:32 PDT 2002


I hadn't realized the IMF had special ops forces:

At 3:20 PM -0400 4/11/02, contentservice at imf.org wrote:
> Introductory Remarks on the Role of the IMF Mission in
>Argentina by Anoop Singh, Director for Special Operations, IMF,
>http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2002/tr020410.htm

Guess what this highly trained professional is recommending? Tight fiscal and monetary policy and measures to reassure foreign investors. Bold, original stuff. And the IMF's critics have the nerve to say they just impose one size fits all policies!

Doug



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