“I hope people will listen now”said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at theWorld Economic Forum in Davoslast month. Lagarde was alluding to the wave of reactionary populism that’s currently sweeping the developed economies, and was harking back to h

Mark Weisbrot The fund’s loan agreement with Ecuador will worsen unemployment and poverty Ecuadorian police arrest a protestor during a demonstration against president Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allie