IMF focus on cutting debt over health spending worsened Ebola in Africa: study
By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was partially responsible for the scale of the Ebola crisis in three West African countries as its policies hampered healthcare spending in these post-conflict states, according to a new study. Conditions on IMF loans to Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia over the past two decades prioritised debt repayments and building foreign exchange reserves over healthcare spending, said research by professors from three leading UK universities. …
