ML-Implode News - IMF bent its rules to hobble Greece with unsustainable debt

Philippe Legrain, a former adviser to the European Commission president, told Arte that the IMF managing director at the time, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, overrode objections from IMF staff so that Greece could pay the money it owed to French banks and not endanger his chances to run for president in France.
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"Despite the IMF's rules that it is not supposed to resort to exceptional access lending when a country's public debt is unsustainable or when the chances of program success are not good, the IMF has managed to lend to Greece some 1,860% of quota," wrote Desmond Lachman, former deputy director of the IMF's policy department. "That is more than three times the normal maximum IMF limit for such lending."

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IMF bent its rules to hobble Greece with unsustainable debt