Why the IMF Model Keeps Poor Countries Poor with Ha-Joon Chang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BIo4o3-Jts
ECONOMY
Issue #473
2 Nov 2025
I think I saw Ha-Joon Chang at Columbia Road flower market a couple weeks ago - I should’ve got a selfie with the man! One of the most amusing, acerbic and humane economists of our era; here he skewers the IMF funding model whose record of ‘helping’ the globally impoverished is less than stellar.