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IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador
- yostrovs 7y agoDoes anyone have any data on how well IMF loans are repaid?
- itake 7y agoAs I am reading it, not great in the recent years. https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extrep1.aspx https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/tad/extrep1.aspx
- onetimemanytime 7y agoAlmost all pay. Sudan and the likes do not. (And Greece, but no doubt it will pay them) https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/jun/05/history-of-countries-with-overdue-imf-repayments-greece https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/jun/05/histor...
- yostrovs 7y agoThat's a pretty long list of defaulters.
- onetimemanytime 7y ago30 countries over 70 years? Se anything in common with those countries? AFAIK, IMF never, even loses money. Might get it a bit later but...
- kzcqt 7y agoI'm thinking that people would consider it concerning and alarming if this loan wasn't given by the IMF but by China.
- tsukasagenesis 7y agoassange go in jai and 2 days latter IMF approve loan ... seem nice timing there
- eraad 7y agoPlease be advised that the news article is dated March 2019. No relation at all.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoI'm sure.. Because the IMF backed states didn't consider that, and put a time-delay for the request of ousting...
- onetimemanytime 7y agoNo relation at all might be the case but a "wink and a nod" exists and has existed. Break the agreement and IMF will bring hell upon you. So, it's quite possible that US and Ecuador planned this a few months apart to look unrelated. US diplomats aren't shy at all...
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoHis point about the timing still stands. Why would Ecuador assist in the arrest before getting what they want first?
- cheez 7y agoI have no idea how others on this site think that something that happened as long ago as March 2019 (the loan being approved) and Assange's arrest MORE THAN A WEEK LATER could be related at all. It's preposterous. It makes no logical sense. That a country which has not received money from the IMF for more than a decade receives money and a month later, one of the most notorious fugitives holed up in said country's embassy is arrested. I cannot fathom why anyone would think these two things that temporally happened MORE THAN A WEEK APART would be related AT ALL. Shameful.
- cheez 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assange-wikileaks-ecuador.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assa...
- Gunstig2Snath 7y agoJust a few days later Assange is evicted from their ambassy in London. that must have been one of the conditions. It's how the IMF rolls, clearly, totally in the pocket of the vile empire called the USA.
- cheez 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assange-wikileaks-ecuador.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assa...