
Is the IMF Still Relevant?
Counterpoint
Is There a Sense Within These Institutions That They're Not Serving the World as They Should?
Is there a sense within these organizations, the financial institutions, that they're not serving the world as they should? I think thats spot on. These institutions have, in many ways, for years and decades, followed donor egenders rather than developing country egenders. And i felt this very sharply. When i went instead to work a the un. Development programme, you know, i found a different set of owners and masters - if i can put it that way. But there was an enabling sense of developing country ownership which empowered our work in a very exciting way. This issue of co operatives against donor ownership of these institutions is a key point if we're to kind of get the by in