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The IMF also often includes terms that prevent food sovereignty, require food imports, and require anti-labor legislation.
IMF loans are used to shackle a country to the neoliberal world order. All it takes us a single right wing government to take on one or more loans and now every government for decades on has to deal with the terms and the debt that prevent the country from developing and gaining security.