Rebranding hides little change for IMF lending

08.10.2009 After a review of its aid facilities for poorer countries the IMF has rebranded some of it operations and while some new help will be delivered as a result, the standard problem of attaching damaging conditions has not been addressed. There is concern that the rebranding seems little more than a changing of some names for its operations with little useful reforms being made. Not mentioned are special drawing rights (SDRs) to lower-income countries that could be of real help, even though changes on this subject were wanted by countries such as the United Kingdom and France.

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