The way to have global free trade isn't through bureaucrats and governments deciding who can trade what, when and how much, it's for them to get out of the economics business and free every citizen of the planet to trade with any other citizen they want to trade with. If only the IMF and WTO were exporting Thatcherism, i.e. freedom, to the world. If only the IMF and WTO were exporting Thatcherism, i.e. freedom, to the world. When will these silly do-gooders realise that it is governments in developing countries that are the problem. Go to any third world country and you can bet your bottom dollar that the government there is causing the starvation, the war, the poverty and the lack of opportunity.
Government is a health hazard.
Peter, Australia Few people are aware of the direct connection between the IMF and the collapse of the Rwandan economy or the Yugoslav economy. It is absurd to think that the population of a country should suffer at the hands of foreign creditors when pro-west leaders actually borrowed the cash, like in Indonesia for example. As we now know Rwanda and Yugoslavia collapsed socially during 90s, but it was IMF's structural adjustments in the decade preceding that ignited these fires. Hugh Gleaves, UK I see at first hand the way that such global companies wield enormous power often beyond that of most countries. I see at first hand the way that such global companies wield enormous power often beyond that of most countries.