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“Make the IMF again be the IMF again.” With that barely pressured variation of the Trumpist motto par excellence, the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Scott Besent, lashed out on Wednesday in Washington in opposition to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, exactly in a parallel act to spring conferences of each worldwide organizations. Besent stated he helps the IMF, however at any time when he sticks to his mission, making it clear that in his opinion he’s not doing it. The criticisms of the Trump Government’s financial individual accountable for the day after the IMF economists are lowered by the expansion forecasts of the United States and all the good economies besides Spain, blaming the brake to the business conflict declared by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

“We must reconnect to the IMF and the World Bank with its foundational missions. The IMF and the World Bank have a lasting value, but their mission has deviated from its course. We must promulgate key reforms to ensure that Bretton Wood’s institutions are at the service of their shareholders, and not vice versa,” stated the Treasury Secretary.

“The IMF and the World Bank play a fundamental role in the international system. And the Trump administration is willing to work with them, provided they remain faithful to their mission,” Besent insisted. “But with the status quo, Bretton Woods institutions are being short.

According to the Secretary of the Treasury, the IMF has deviated from its foundational objectives. “The IMF was as soon as unwavering in its mission of selling world financial cooperation and monetary stability. Now dedicate time and disproportionate assets to work on local weather change, gender and social points,” he said. Instead, he believes that the agency should, for example, “appeal to consideration to nations similar to China, which have utilized worldwide distorting insurance policies and opaque financial practices for a lot of many years.”

In his opinion, the organism based in Washington must focus again on solving the problems of balance of payments and making their loans temporary. And it must require countries to take responsibility for the application of the reforms, “typically it has to say ‘no,” argued the secretary of the Treasury in an act organized by the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the International Association of the Great Banks chaired by the Spanish Ana Botín. Besent put the recent rescue of Argentina as an example to follow, for being a program accompanied by draft reforms, but said that the fund “has no obligation to offer to nations that don’t apply the reforms.”

Nor was the World Bank out of Besent’s criticism. He pointed out that the international body must use its resources in the most efficient and effective way possible and focus on loan granting to the poorest and less solvent countries. Besent denounced that countries that have progressed and abandoned poverty, setting firm deadlines to stop lending to those who already meet the exclusion criteria. “Treating China, the second economic system on this planet, as a creating nation is absurd,” he said. He also asked that the agency open to finance fossil energy projects when they are cheaper than renewables.

On this occasion, Besent did not present his criticisms as an escape from multilateralism, but assured that he wants to get involved in the rebalancing of the international financial and economic system. And he gave a warning to those responsible for these institutions, who are in front of Kristalina Georgieva, as managing director of the IMF, already Ajay Banga, as president of the World Bank. “The Trump administration will benefit from the management and affect of the United States in these establishments and can press them to meet their necessary mandates. The United States will even require that the administration and employees of those establishments pay accounts to show actual progress,” he concluded.