Can the IMF Be Trusted on Argentina?
21 February 2020 by Eric Toussaint
After the IMF mission to Argentina agreed with President Fernandez that the foreign debt is unsustainable, international debt campaigner Eric Toussaint tells teleSUR that the Fund is not to be trusted.
Source : Telesur
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (589)
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Greece: Symbol of Illegitimate Debt
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Greece: the very symbol of illegitimate debt
3 March 2011, by Eric Toussaint
From the Global North to the Global South: debt in its many states (second part)
The debt in the North: some alternative paths19 February 2011, by Eric Toussaint
Towards the Dakar World Social Forum, February 2011
“The challenge of a global solution outside the system”25 January 2011, by Eric Toussaint , Sergio Ferrari
It is not logical to repay debts that are illegitimate
The People of Europe should audit their creditors21 January 2011, by Eric Toussaint
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The CADTM: 20 years of struggle for the oppressed
9 January 2011, by Eric Toussaint
From the Global North to the Global South: debt in its many states (1st part)
The debt in developing countries: a dangerous unconcern7 January 2011, by Eric Toussaint
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The Irish crisis: a complete failure for neo-liberalism
3 January 2011, by Eric Toussaint
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Global Crisis and Current debt scenario
9 December 2010, by Eric Toussaint
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The debt crisis hits harder in Europe than in the emergent countries of the South
27 October 2010, by Eric Toussaint
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