Jim Devine wrote: >At the econ. convention in early January, I heard one speaker (Jagdish >Bhagwati?) talk about how the IMF was micromanaging the world. His example >was that the IMF guy (a young economist who knew nothing at all about >Jamaica) telling the government that they should switch from FM broadcasts >to AM. Who made these guys gods? There's a reason they call the IMF teams that visit countries - typically 2-4 weeks at the finance ministry & central bank, I think - "missions." Doug