Leadership Quote by Rodrigo Rato

The sentence strains to sound empirical while quietly doing PR for an institution that’s often accused of making crises worse. Rato’s opening wobble, "Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases", isn’t just verbal clutter; it’s a hedge dressed up as confidence. The repetition signals a speaker who wants the authority of data without the vulnerability of citing it. He’s selling reassurance, not running regressions.

Context matters: as a senior figure tied to the IMF era of crisis lending, Rato is defending the legitimacy of "financial facilities" at a time when IMF programs were politically radioactive - associated with austerity, privatization, and the perception of outside technocrats dictating domestic policy. That phrase, "worked with us", is doing heavy lifting. It recasts conditionality as partnership and compliance as cooperation, smoothing over the power imbalance between creditor and borrower. The IMF isn’t imposing terms; countries are simply "using" helpful tools.

The core claim is counterfactual: recipients "have come out" better than they would have otherwise. Conveniently, you can’t rerun history, so the argument is built to be unfalsifiable in public debate. "Quick... more quickly" foregrounds speed, a politically attractive metric that sidesteps distribution: who recovered, who paid, what got cut. The subtext is a moral one - trust us, our medicine works - aimed at skeptical publics and wavering governments. It’s persuasion through vagueness, calibrated to defend the brand while leaving the messiest evidence offstage.