text:  including exchange rate collapse, inflation and recession. Countries go to the IMF when nobody else will lend to them. And it's worth making that clear because in that context, it is uniquely powerful. Essentially, a country has nowhere else to go to and therefore cannot say no to what the IMF is proposing. So if the IMF proposes a long list of requirements, now including issues to do with treatment of gay people or persecution of gay people,