IMF – Criticizing the critics

    Headline: IMF – Criticizing the critics Source: Euromoney Date: April 2000 Author: Michael Peterson Allan Meltzer and his cabal of fellow iconoclasts obviously hit something when they fired their round in the debate about the IMF and the World Bank. Carnegie Mellon University’s Meltzer, chairman of a congressional panel called the “International Financial […]

    Headline: IMF – Criticizing the critics
Source: Euromoney
Date: April 2000
Author: Michael Peterson

Allan Meltzer and his cabal of fellow iconoclasts obviously hit something when they fired their round in the debate about the IMF and the World Bank.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Meltzer, chairman of a congressional panel called the “International Financial Institution Advisory Commission”, and his conservative colleague in the American Enterprise Institute, Charles Calomiris of Columbia University, joined forces with Harvard’s Jeffrey Sachs, a card-carrying Democrat and long-time IMF critic, to forge a common view in favour of radical restructuring.






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