Choosing the IMF leader

NEW YORK: Sooner than expected, the International Monetary Fund will have a new managing director. For more than a decade, I have criticised the Fund's governance, symbolised by the way its leader is chosen.

By gentlemen's agreement among the majority shareholders - the G-8 - the managing director is to be a European, with Americans in the number two post and at the head of the World Bank.

The Europeans typically picked their nominee behind the scenes, as did the Americans, after only cursory consultation with developing countries.  The outcome, however, was often not good for the IMF, the World Bank, or the world.

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