Despite increasingly strident public outcry from the targets of the IMF’s counterproductive conditional lending program, as well as the international community in general, the IMF remained largely aloof concerning institutional reform. In 1999 – a period in which the Southeast Asian financial crisis was still in full swing, and Russia’s
Read MoreDespite increasingly strident public outcry from the targets of the IMF’s counterproductive conditional lending program, as well as the international community in general, the IMF remained largely aloof concerning institutional reform. In