The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.
The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.
There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.
I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon.
I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.
Look at Ukraine. Its currency, the hernia, is plunging. The euro is really in a problem. Greece is problematic as to whether it can pay the IMF, which is threatening not to be part of the troika with the European Central Bank and the European Union making more loans to enable Greece to pay the bondholders and the banks. Britain is having a referendum as to whether to withdraw from the European Union, and it looks more and more like it may do so. So the world's politics are in turmoil.
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.
I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary for new growth.
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
