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Can China’s Poverty Alleviation Tactics work globally?

The Bridge to China

CHAPTER

The Role of the World Bank and the IMF in the Development of the Underdeveloped World

The IMF and World Bank have a bad history, but they're still essentially doing some of the similar things that the Chinese development finance is doing. The difference may be that China has a no strings attached policy and the IMF have tranches where they request that they change and liberalized neoliberal tactics in their internal economics. But on the other hand, you know, you need to use that as an instrument. And China does not impose conditionalities. That's the really fundamental.

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