OPP's Dialogue on Global Financial Institutions

Take, for example, IMF and the World Bank, and their interventions in developing countries. The imposition of neo-liberal “reforms” has ended up in disaster.

If anything, they have benefitted the rich, weakened the Governments, helped multinational corporations, exposed the local industry to market failure, triggered hyperinflation and increased poverty. Pakistan knows it too well.

Of course, developing countries are not fully free of responsibility for their economic and political malaise.

Using real-life examples, this Online Dialogue will address issues like - how global financial institutions are structured, funded, operated, exert control over countries and factually damage the economies, pushing millions below the poverty line.

Our speaker:

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is a teacher, left-wing politician and columnist. He is an associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and has previously taught at LUMS. He is among the founders of the Awami Workers Party (AWP). He served as the president…