For IMF head, there are two candidates to replace Mr Rodrigo Rato who has resigned for personal reasons, France's former Economy minister Dominique Strauss-Khan and the former president of the Czech Central Bank Josef Tosovsky.
Dominique...
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There are risks associated with the recent dramatic growth in...
The International Monetary Fund has assured that Asian economies will not face any substantial financial crisis amid the heavy influx of global capital.
Developing Asian economies are successfully attracting healthy foreign direct investment and...
The world has not gotten quite over what happened at the World Bank recently, and to make things even more interesting, it seems that IMF is also on the verge of witnessing a change at its helm.
Rodrigo de Rato the managing director of the IMF has...
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Threats to the global economy have lessened a bit in recent months, but policymakers must remain on guard nonetheless, said the head of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF chief Rodrigo Rato has recently told the Peterson Institute economic...
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The world economy after four consecutive years of robust growth will remain solid at close to 5 percent in 2007, said International Monetary Fund Managing Director Rodrigo Rato. He further said that the global economy is experiencing one of its...
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