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SDRs are used by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make emergency loans and are used by developing nations to shore up their currency reserves without the need to borrow at high interest ...

It is an article of faith among many IMF critics that industrial country taxpayers bear the costs of IMF loans—the critics call them "bailouts"—to countries in crisis. The standard scenario is ...