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 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 (see here), 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 (549)
-
Debt Against the People: an ABC
29 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint
-
Greece: Chronology from 25 January 2015 to 2019
25 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint
-
Brazil: from Lula to Bolsonaro
14 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint
-
President Lula’s “realpolitik” and the “alterglobalisation” movement
13 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Frédéric Lévêque
-
“Any Third World government which takes the decision to carry on refunding the external debt is opting for the road to ruin”
13 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
-
The Varoufakis-Tsipras line was doomed to fail from the word ’Go’
2 January 2020, by Eric Toussaint
-
Argentina: facing another debt crisis
18 December 2019, by Eric Toussaint
-
A critical review of Costa-Gavras’ Adults in the Room
26 November 2019, by Eric Toussaint
-
South Africa: actions against the abusive debts imposed on the popular classes
13 November 2019, by Eric Toussaint
Series: Adverse International and Local Conditions for Sub-Saharan Africa (Part 6)
New Threats, New Resistances and New Alternatives12 November 2019, by Eric Toussaint , Patrick Bond , Ishmael Lesufi , Lisa Thompson
0 | ... | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 | 110 | ... | 540
Also in this section
-
CADTM - 30 years of struggle against debt
16 November 2020 - CADTM, Chris Den Hond -
(Video) Fattorelli : “The solution will come from grassroots, conscious, mobilized and united”
19 October 2020 - Maria Lucia Fattorelli -
On the World Economic Crisis
20 July 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Dan La Botz -
Launching a new powerful international social and political movement
9 June 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Alexis Cukier -
The Corona pandemic and the Struggle for our Peoples’ Resources and Food Sovereignty
22 May 2020 - Omar Aziki
-
A country is entitled to refuse to repay a debt
26 November 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Revista Mugica -
Voluntary Termination of Debt
18 May 2020 - Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero -
Argentina: facing another debt crisis
18 December 2019 - Eric Toussaint -
Boom and then bust?
30 April 2019 - Michael Roberts -
We denounce the ideological persecution and the attempt to intimidate us
16 November 2018 - ATTAC/CADTM Argentina
-
Kenyan activists raise questions about debt...
29 January - Kenya Debt Abolition Network -
11 questions / 11 answers about the new global debt crisis and how it can be radically reduced
29 December 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Olivier Bonfond, Mats Lucia Bayer -
CADTM - 30 years of struggle against debt
16 November 2020 - CADTM, Chris Den Hond -
Unleashing the power of pension funds and debt cancellation to finance a just energy transition
25 August 2020 - Dominic Brown -
Time For A Renewed Anti-Debt Movement
1 June 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Beverly Keene, Lidy B. Nacpil, Dorothy Guerrero
-
Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt
11 February - Yanis Iqbal -
IMF’s continued VAT push inconsistent with rhetoric on progressive taxes
6 January - Bretton Woods Project -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
23 December 2020 - Eric Toussaint -
The IMF and the World Bank in the time of Coronavirus: the failed campaign for a new image
9 November 2020 - Eric Toussaint, Emilie Paumard, Milan Rivié -
The World Bank, the IMF and the respect of human rights
25 October 2020 - Eric Toussaint
-
The external debt of Developing Countries: a Timebomb
22 February - Eric Toussaint, Milan Rivié -
Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt
11 February - Yanis Iqbal -
Ecuador: Historic urban vote against large scale mining in referendum
8 February - Miriam Lang -
Stand with Africans to Cancel the debt!
5 February - CADTM Africa , Womin -
South Africa: Vaccine Apartheid or Equality?
30 January - Rehad Desai, South African Federation of Trade Unions
CADTM
COMMITTEE FOR THE ABOLITION OF ILLEGITIMATE DEBT
35 rue Fabry
4000 - Liège- Belgique
00324 226 62 85
info@cadtm.org
