“It is more fun to be Santa than Scrooge.” The catchy phrase was deployed by Harvard University economist Ken Rogoff in early January, while cheekily asking, “Why is the International Monetary Fund trying to morph into an aid agency?” The IMF’s leftward turn, he supposes, reflects an overly-generous mentality and practice under the very shaky leadership More

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