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Why the IMF needs to build on its COVID-19 record, not backtrack

By Kevin Gallagher / October 23, 2020

In the past, the IMF infamously treated each crisis with a “one-size-fits-all” approach that conditioned new financing on fiscal austerity, but has ...
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Nicaragua: How Ortega’s fragile alliance of the elite set the stage for crisis

By Javier Gutiérrez / August 3, 2018

The Nicaraguan economy grew at the fourth fastest rate in Latin America in 2017, but the lack of democracy and shared prosperity led to the violent crisis ...
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