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                    THE BARRIER IN FRONT OF THE FREEDOM: IMF

In recent years, most opposing researchers have been interested in the money foundations’ and IMF’s purposes. The majority of studies have focused on what foundations do, what their aim is, they are useful or not and what can be an alternative for them. How do they study was not examined. Studies suggest that foundations and IMF is just a tool for capitalist system to make poor countries addicted to developed countries. Previous studies have researched only a part of this economical relationship. First, none of the studies has examined where these foundations and IMF stand in capitalist economic system. Second, no studies can be found trying to explain the relationship between these foundations and freedom. The study investigated the aim of these foundations and IMF on the independence of poor countries. Specially, the study tried to examine these questions: 1) Where these foundations and IMF stand in capitalist economic system? 2) Do these foundations give freedom or make people and countries addicted? 3) Is these foundations’ purpose to finance low-income countries? IMF is not a neutral organization. Although the economists and officials in IMF states that the IMF supports countries which tries to adjust their economies by helping to planning programs and sustaining accommodations to encourage them(IMF, 2005), if we can see the real economic relations between countries we can say that IMF can not have any helpful aim on countries because of the benefit relations. According to Hendra Aidiwidjaja, IMF’s and World Bank’s most members are national governments. Because apportion is being shared according to the growth of the economies the president of IMF is always from Europe and the World Bank’s is from America. Hence, western countries control the other countries with their own policies which suit their benefits (Aidiwididjaja, 2005, pp. endnotes). I will deal with these examples in following paragraphs. Of course there are other foundations except IMF. For instance in Matt Kelly’s research about the relation between US’s money and the opposition in Ukraine, we understood that. There are mainly 3 funds which are funded by US government. First of them is National Endowment for Democracy, whose money is coming from Congress directly. Another one is Eurasia foundation. It gets power from the State Department. The last one is Renaissance Foundation and it is funded by billionaire George Soros who gets money from State Department (Kelly, 2005 pp.3) Who can say an opposite idea for the baleful role of IMF and foundations of developed countries after these examples? How these in Ukraine can be explained in other words. It’s very clear that IMF and other foundations are being used as an addictive tool of capitalist economic system. Let’s concentrate on the addictive role of IMF. Is it like that on real economic states or not? It will be beneficial to look at Matt Kelly’s research again. He estimates that the center of Ukraine Reform Education is funded by the US Agency for International Development. This organization of Ukraine produces radio and television programs in order to educate Ukrainians about restoring their economies. They also help for education of journalists (Kelly, 2004, pp.3). Why a country gives funds to educate another country’s citizens? There is little probality. One of them is that this country can be a very friendly country and wants everybody be happy and has a utopia according to this (probably a socialist country). The other and most probable one is that this country has some benefit relations with that country. This situation can be exemplified by a comic where a man gives a candy to a little, pretty girl. Looking in our country will be better to understand the purpose of IMF. We started to perform IMF policies in 1999. The budgetary deficit of Turkey was 9 billion dollars. It was increased to 30 billion dollars in 2004(ATO’s IMF years report, 2004 pp.2).After this huge deficit Turkey became dependent to the credits of IMF because Turkey was not able to produce enough things to close this deficit. The reason of this low production is again IMF policies, because IMF supported the foreigner investor and purified national industry. “IMF surrounded all economic and political organizations of us and became a government in government. There is no self confidence of state administration. The governments loosed power after these IMF programs. (Aygün S., 2004, pp.4) We must chicken out from pragmatism in this point. Looking only the movements won’t be a true behavior. We have to think dialectically. The subjective situations and the reason-result relations act on these situations. What the capitalism wants is the basic question for this issue. Economic structure of this system is mainly stands on gaining profit. Knowing this will make people opposing. Thus, such tools as World Bank and IMF are being used. They are look like pink curtains in front of people’s eyes. Gaining profit leads to exploitation. Because profit is the allocation that is belong to another person or country. When you take this portion you became an exploiter. After this basic definition giving an example would be more illustrative. Suppose that you are a worker in a factory. You produce a tool that has a value of 50$. Your boss pays you 20+ for your production. The other part of the money is the profit of him. Let’s adapt this to the countries. U.S.A. makes lots of investments in our country. They become boss and we become workers. We meet with the same situation again. These are the basic facts of real economic circle all over the world. To understand the effects of foundations and IMF on countries now will be easier. In recent years capitalism penetrate into some countries with the help of IMF and other foundations. I gave some examples in previous paragraphs. In this paragraph I will focus on the economic effects mainly. The results where the IMF policies were applied are remarkable. There occurred a social rebellion in Indonesia. Children below 2 years old meet with nutrition problems. Unemployment increased in Colombia. In Argentina, there was lots of plundering. The country was reduced about %50 in Uruguay. Again a social rebellion occurred in Algeria. In Mexico 30 thousand businesses have been closed. In Somali agriculture was purged. In Russia national income decreased %30 (ATO, 2004, pp: 4). Most evidently we met with the baleful effects of IMF on economy in our country. How many relatives of us became unemployed after the economic crisis in 2001? How many businesses were closed is another crucial question that has a very harrowing answer. These are look like very emotional but these are the fundamentals of economy. Closed business and unemployed persons are indicators of bad economy. I gave Argentina as a small example but dealing with it will useful to summarize the study. Argentina was the third in the list of economically developed countries in Latin America in the years 1990. In these years Argentina was considered as a very successful example for this region. In the beginning of the 1990ies Argentina started to perform IMF’s economic programs included privatization in order to continue its economic reconstruction process. Barely Argentina’s economy collapsed because of IMF’s programs. In the acme of the economic crisis in 2002, Argentina stated it’s bankrupt with 81.8 billion dollars dept. With some economic dodges they deleted %70 of their dept. After leaving the IMF’s programs Argentina showed a very high performance and decreased the unemployment ratio from %20 to % 12. It must an example for us and other countries. IMF is just a barrier in front of our freedom. We must decline addictiveness.





Resources:

• Matt Kelly, U.S. Money Helped Opposition in Ukraine, 2004

                            Retrieved in 10.05.05 from http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEL412A.html

• Hendra Adiwidjaja, Poverty and Economic Destruction in Indonesia, 2004

                            Retrieved in 12.05.05 from http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ADI502A.html

• IMF fact sheet, How the IMF Helps to Resolve Economic Crises, 2005

                    Retrieved in 10.05.05 from http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/crises.htm

• ATO IMF years report, 2004

                             Retrieved in 10.05.05 from http://www.ekocerceve.com/img/haberler/ATO.doc