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Ben Clift’s The IMF and the Politics of Austerity

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  1. https://www.ft.com/content/f5de7464-8d83-3ee8-83bc-8a749c9f479a.

  2. https://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2016/12/12/the-imf-is-not-asking-greece-for-more-austerity/#more-15842.

  3. The only emergency deviation was the Fund’s heavily circumscribed agreement with capital controls for handful program countries on a temporary basis.

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Ban, C. Ben Clift’s The IMF and the Politics of Austerity. Comp Eur Polit 18, 78–84 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41295-018-0151-0

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