#The IMF

[dreamstz1]

Exploring the Tanzanian Economy: A Comprehensive Analysis

Tanzania, a country located in East Africa, has been experiencing significant economic growth and development in recent years. From its diverse natural resources to its growing industries, Tanzania’s economy is a topic of interest for many. In this blog post, we will delve into various aspects of the Tanzanian economy to provide a detailed analysis.What is the Current Economic Situation in…

[nakeddeparture]

Ghana’s parliament passes anti-LGBTQ bill. The IMF says any anti-LGBTQ bill could lead to loss of World Bank financing - Ghana

https://youtu.be/WtD_YM8Eb3A

Ghana’s president has to sign or not sign that bill - the buck stops with him. Where will it leave him politically, as he’s between a rock and a hard place. Have your say. Naked!!

[milfstalin]

Malthusianism/Ecofascism and the International Monetary Fund/World Bank

[excerpted from my copy of Michael Hudson's Super-Imperialism, 2nd edition, section II chapter 7]

[michael hudson then describes the Partners in Development (1969) program and its ill-suitedness to the actual task at hand & the necessity to reform the agricultural production to support high-value-added production, which the program ignores]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

On Oct. 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s West African revolutionary leader, was assassinated. Sankara, a Marxist and revolutionary, has been nicknamed “Africa’s Che Guevara.”

It is interesting to note that at a time when youth have focused the world’s attention on the dire issue of climate crisis, and workers and Indigenous people in Ecuador are rising up against the International Monetary Fund’s austerity demands — that Sankara spearheaded major programs in both areas.

He promoted and led a massive people’s campaign called the “One village, one grove” program to combat desertification of the Sahel (the area between the Sahara Desert and Sudanian Savanna). Over 10 million trees were planted. That legacy lives on. 

Under Sankara’s leadership, Burkina Faso nationalized land and mineral wealth and refused aid from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which incurred the wrath of both U.S. and French imperialism. 

[m0e-ru]

does everyone like moel brand adachi i sure hope i can keep serving and manufacturing for th niche market

[kropotkindersurprise]

August 2024 - Kenya’s political elite is trying to criminalize protests. The government is currently considering a bill that would give the police official authority to ban and crush protests, imposing fines and jail sentences for protesters. Due to the recent uprising, the government was forced to scrap the Finance Bill, an IMF plan that would have significantly raised the cost of living. During the protests in June, more than 50 people were shot dead by the police and many more were abducted, with some people still missing. While the Finance Bill was officially scrapped, Kenya’s top court suspended the ruling that denounced the bill as unconstitutional. This has sparked fears amongst Kenyans that the government will try to implement the law again. Nevertheless, Kenyans have said they will take to the streets should such an event occur. [video]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Kenya can have democracy or neocolonial extraction, but not both – because democracy means addressing the demands of the Kenyan people for jobs, healthcare, education, housing, transportation and basic social protections under a fair and equitable fiscal regime, while colonial extraction means the destruction of economic and monetary sovereignty, austerity for the poor, extravagant lifestyles for the elites, corruption, injustice and socioeconomic exclusion under a fiscal regime that accelerates the engines of economic entrapment. One cannot democratize a system that hasn’t been structurally and economically decolonized yet. Despite Kenya’s democratic institutions, transparent elections, independent judiciary, freedom of speech and vibrant civil society spaces, its elected governments systematically undermine the social and economic demands of Kenya’s population – less because those governments wish to ignore the mandate given to them by the electorate, but because they face financial pressures from abroad that force them to prioritize external debt service and the financial needs of creditors and foreign investors. In 2019, Kenya used 19% of its export revenues to service external debt; today that number has jumped up to nearly 50%. When a country uses half of its export revenues to pay interest on its external debt instead of investing in the basic pillars of development and prosperity, it is not surprising to see the kind of revolt that we have seen in Nairobi against the 2024 finance bill. This makes Kenya a classic case of an economy steered from abroad, by colonial design rather than by accident. The fact that Kenya is in a debt trap after decades of following IMF policy prescriptions means that either the IMF is incompetent or it is engaging in intentional economic entrapment. I believe it’s the latter. It is time to end the entrapment and to decolonize the Kenyan economy.

10 July 2024

[saltyfilmmajor]

Theories on how we kill The Entity, I’ll Start:

The power of friendship

[crystallizsch]

okay hi so this is the worst thing i've ever done, i've drawn a real Kiss

[vvenciel]

anyways, wyll's new kiss animation w/ astarion

[sdrose93]

Happy birthday, Ethan! 🥳❤

[nakeddeparture]

Bridgetown, Barbados. Michael Howard prefers to hear it from the white man’s (IMF) mouth!

https://youtu.be/DYTsLBLV6Lg

To hell with the Mottley crew! Naked!!

[nicky-jr]

is this anything

[blinkandyoumissit]

14 NOV 2007 | IMF Artist Feed • Fall Out Boy

[ vimeo | youtube ]

[misslovelace]

fem tva convent au

[helyiios]

team hunt + ilsa tweets p1