The Sisyphean Arrangement: How Interventions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Have Kept Tunisia and Egypt in a Cyclical and Failed Economic Situation

• In Event: Foreign Finance/Aid, State Survival, and Economic Growth

Brief Overview

This paper examines the effects of IMF Loan Programs in the post-Arab Spring cases of Tunisia and Egypt, arguing that these programs have placed both states in a situation of perpetual debt and austerity measures known as the "Sisyphean Arrangement."

Author

• Maxwell Fuerderer, City University of New York