Below I have embedded a four-part documentary entitled “Life+Debt“, which I have found on Livevideo.com: it is about the effect of IMF and World Bank policies in Jamaica. This movie is a great companion to understand the background behind the book “Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal” (which I am currently reading).
To give you an idea of how IMF and World Bank loans work, imagine that you need a loan. Imagine further that there is only one person that can give you this loan (because, say, you’re really desperate for money), and that that person requires a detailed breakdown of all your current expenses and subsequently asks you, as a condition to issue the loan, that your future expenses fit more closely with another breakdown proposed by the lender (which, say, involves much less spending on food, health or education). In exchange for the money, in other words, you lose the freedom to do with it whatever you thought was best for yourself , and become forced to use it for what the lender thinks (or says to think) is best for you.
