The book that we’re discussing in this episode suggests that IMF funding becomes a resource held by local leaders, which those leaders can use to benefit their own supporters to the detriment of the rest of the population.
The book – called IMF Lending: Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest – has two authors, and we are joined by both of them.
- Dr Rod Abouharb is Associate Professor in International Relations here in the UCL Department of Political Science.
- Dr Bernhard Reinsberg is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow and also a Research Associate in Political Economy at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge.
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