Here is another example of someone who does not know where the interests of "underdeveloped countries" are. Nor does she know that the major Western powers and Western-dominated international institutions have been helping poor countries through aid, loans, and advice on how to run their economies, "liberalise, restructure, plan, adjust, budget, and inject the spirit of entrepreneurship."
This article is written by a graduate in economics from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. An insignificant university in the world. The former student condemns the International Monetary Fund as an instrument of "domination, plunder and enslavement through debt", quoting a Western writer. She also gives the example of Malaysia under Mahathir Mohamad who refused to have the country indebted to the IMF and abide by the Fund's diktats.
By contrast, in 'prestigious' Western universities a student believes that the IMF is a force of good in the world, with a mission of helping "emerging" economies and poor countries develop. In one of those universities, the director had a career in high positions at the IMF and the World Bank.
I wonder who is on the right side. The graduate from an unknown university that may not even feature at all in the 500 list of the Times, and ‘with almost no history’, or a student with enormous wealth, equipment, resources, libraries, world renowned researchers and professors, accumulated over more than 400 years, behind them.
ماليزيا وصندوق النقد الدولي
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