The IMF is showing some hypocrisy on inequality
- Written by Christopher Sheil, Visiting Fellow in History, UNSW
“I hope people will listen now” said Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.
Lagarde was alluding to the wave of reactionary populism that’s currently sweeping the developed economies, and was harking back to her speech at Davos in 2013 whe...