With the prospect of an IMF agreement receding, analysts say a bridge finance package might be put together by the IMF with other donors to tide Cairo over until after the elections.

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So we believe that working with the EU, working with the IMF, that together the capacity exists to resolve this.

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But that support consists, so far, of backing a new deal for Brazil from the IMF which, together with the World Bank, continue to be Washington's preferred means of helping economies in need, according to John Taylor, under-secretary for international affairs under Mr O'Neill at the treasury.

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Instead, to the applause of the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF and other advisers with Jurassic Park mentalities, Brazil cobbled together a program resembling a pretzel designed by someone on LSD.

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