Problems and Solutions

IMAGINE a man who has just stolen your wallet telling you that it might help to put food on the table if he cleared out your bank account, too. Or the company responsible for cutting-off your water supply explaining that it is also in your best interests to allow them to repossess the house. I see little difference between examples such as these and the faceless parasites at the World Bank warning us that a recent increase in global poverty means that the combined forces of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) - the two main branches of that poisoned tree - will be forced to

"help developing countries resume growth and respond to the health, social, and economic effects of Covid-19 as they work toward a sustainable and inclusive recovery."

Needless to say, stamping out the eternal curse of international finance and ensuring that its humanitarian architects are richly 'rewarded' for their concern is long, long overdue.