But it is precisely this type of IFI insistence on neoliberal Washington Consensus policies that brings thousands of demonstrators on to the streets in protest whenever the World Bank and the IMF try to meet. Specifically, why? In general, it’s the imperialism of economic policy, the undemocratic notion that a few thousand Western experts steeped in neoclassical/neoliberal economics know what policy regime works best for a world of others. More specifically, in the original HIPC proposal, civil society organizations were supposed to be consulted in preparing a country’s “poverty-reduction and growth strategy.” But that turned out to be a facade for business-as-usual—structural adjustment or, rather, structural transformation designed in Washington DC. Now we find fewer references even to “country ownership,” the IFI euphemism for brief consultation with the local finance ministry, home to economists also trained in American and British universities. Instead, it’s prescription by the experts with inspections every 6 months. The G8 version of structural adjustment disguises an imperialism of expertise in the won- drous garb of world humanity’s most generous impulse, the elimination of global poverty. In the MDGs and debt relief we find business more or less as usual dressed in the optimistic terms of liberation from poverty.