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Will Mr. Putin Drive Congress into the Arms of the IMF? (The Hill)

March 07, 2014

From the article

Sometimes a crisis can usefully clarify things. So it is that events in Ukraine have given new focus to the Obama administration's long frustrated efforts to get Congress to approve the 2010 IMF quota reform.

The package has been stalled on the Hill for many months, suffering from the inability of the administration to convincingly answer two questions from Congress. Why should we care? And even if we do care, why do we have to act now?

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