Civil Society Must Hold Govt Accountable, Says IMF Chief. Do you think this is possible and how do CSOs do that?
"During the last decade, African countries, not only western Africa, also eastern Africa, have experienced growth of about six to seven percent a year. It never happened in the past - over decades. Never. Why did it happen? Because finally those countries were forced [by events and world changes] to implement good policies. Why were they forced to do that? Because the international community set up a big programme of debt cancellation and the condition for this debt cancellation was to have a good track record in economic policy. So because of this carrot of debt cancellation, countries said, 'Okay we are going to follow what you say, we are going to implement the policy you say,' and the result was the highest growth ever. If this is not a success, what is a success?" Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF