Yusupha, I must confess here that i'm one of your admirers especially your patience, geniality and bonhomie attributes which i hope you will kind enough one to shower on me. Do please keep it coming. In your posting, you lamented amongst others that you haven't seen any attempts to expertly dissect the IMF letter like a professional economist would have done. Well, i believe i had once stated a disclaimer here that i'm not an econmist. Rather a non-econbomist who is interested in economics or shall we economic philosophy cause my area of specialisation, [social and political theory] cuts across economic philosopy and political economy. People like Basil Jones are best suited to dissect the IMF letter. I believe Basil has first hand knowledge on such matters. I hope he will assist us all. Most of the comments i pass on economics, at any rate have to do with the philosophical rationale behind certain economic decisions, i.e whether certain economic decisions are right or wrong morally. My type are what Paul Krugman would call "policy entrepreneurs" or "trespassers" into economic science. Many thanks for your insights. Have a great day dread! Hamjatta Kanteh ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------