Lara Merling is an economics researcher at the International Trade Union Confederation, which represents 200 million workers in 163 countries, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

05.28.2020

• Lara Merling

We Can’t Trust the IMF and World Bank to Lead the COVID-19 Recovery

Despite decades of protests against them, the IMF and World Bank continue to force the same discredited neoliberal policies on poor governments and their people. Countries in economic distress desperately need alternative sources of aid that won’t demand adherence to free-market orthodoxy.

04.08.2018

• Lara Merling

Wall Street Is Trying to Embezzle Puerto Rico’s Hurricane-Relief Money

Puerto Rico’s federal relief funds are being earmarked for bondholders.