The book that we’re discussing in this episode suggests that IMF funding becomes a resource held by local leaders, which those leaders can use to benefit their own supporters to the detriment of the rest of the population.

The book – called IMF Lending: Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest – has two authors, and we are joined by both of them.

- Dr Rod Abouharb is Associate Professor in International Relations here in the UCL Department of Political Science.

- Dr Bernhard Reinsberg is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Glasgow and also a Research Associate in Political Economy at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge.

Mentioned in this episode:

• IMF Lending: Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest

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