IMF's advice contemptible

It is common knowledge that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) habitual tendency of issuing capitalistic (neo-liberal) economic advice has long reached its elasticity limit.

Observably, the said tendency has surpassed heroism and is now legendary! It is a fact of history that theirs is an advocacy for a rightist skewed  economic system. By some proxy and unorthodox means, the IMF appears to be supportive of a situation which encourages the evolution and mushrooming of few manipulative elites, greedy tender-preneurs and the petty-bourgeoisie in society. Shockingly, their latest advice is symbolic of pure ultra-capitalism in its extremism.

I remained in shock as Botswana was ordered, twice for that matter, by IMF to cut its public wage. The advice left me jaw-dropped to say the least. What frustrates me mostly is the evident lack of patience by the monetary body as shown by its repeated and endless calls for the government to accelerate the envisaged reform.

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