{"id":7512,"date":"2016-08-05T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2016-08-05T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T19:06:22","slug":"hanke-on-imf-pressure-from-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2016\/08\/05\/hanke-on-imf-pressure-from-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanke on IMF pressure from politicians\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT published my letter \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/da5c9d96-559d-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef.html?siteedition=intl#axzz4GObByfbd\">Not the first time IMF has succumbed to pressure from politicians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent FT editorial as well as story indicated that the IMF\u2019s Independent Evaluation Office found that the \u201cIMF repeatedly succumbed to political pressure from European governments during the eurozone debt crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first and only case in which the International Monetary Fund has been manipulated by politicians, and it certainly is far from the worst.<\/p>\n<p>The full letter is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/da5c9d96-559d-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef.html?siteedition=intl#axzz4GObByfbd\">http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/da5c9d96-559d-11e6-9664-e0bdc13c3bef.html?siteedition=intl#axzz4GObByfbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT published my letter \u201cNot the first time IMF has succumbed to pressure from politicians.\u201d A recent FT editorial as well as story indicated that the IMF\u2019s Independent Evaluation Office found that the \u201cIMF repeatedly succumbed to political pressure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/2016\/08\/05\/hanke-on-imf-pressure-from-politicians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bw","category-international-regulatory-cooperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7516,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions\/7516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforfinancialstability.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}