International Monetary Fund Loans Linked To Higher Death Rates From Tuberculosis
Monday, July 28, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
International Monetary Fund loans were associated with a 16.6 percent rise in death rates from tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries between 1992 and 2002. The study also found that IMF loans were linked with a 13.9 percent increase in the number of new cases of TB per year and a 13.2 percent increase per year in the total number of people with the disease.