Eliminating the IMF

Imad A. Moosa is a Professor at RMIT, Australia. He has held several academic, professional and advisory positions in the UK, US and Australia, and he has written extensively on both economics and finance. Over the course of his career, he has published over 200 papers and 22 books, 11 of which were published with Palgrave.  Nisreen Moosa is a clinical health scientist who has turned into a health economist. She is completing her PhD on the financing of healthcare at the University of South Australia. Part of her research is on the effect of the IMF on health expenditure, particularly in developing countries.

• 1. The IMF: History, Functions and Operations.- 2. Neoliberalism as the Fund’s Ideology.- 3. The IMF as an Instigator of Riots and Civil Unrest.- 4. The Effects of IMF Operations on Social Expenditure.- 5. Arguments for Keeping or Reforming the Fund.- 6. Arguments for Abolishing the Fund.- 7. Concluding Remarks.