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Heather Stewart is the Guardian’s economic editor, attending the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the Wold Bank in Thailand this week.
Good morning from Bangkok, where the route from my hotel to the vast Queen Sikirit conference centre where the IMF/World Bank meetings are being held was blocked by this small but noisy protest by the People’s Network Against World Bank-IMF, with their friendly-looking World Bank pig.