The IMF after dsk

Monday, May 23, 2011

PRINCETON: How the mighty International Monetary Fund has fallen. More than a decade ago, the French magazine Paris Match carried a picture of the Fund's then Managing Director, Michel Camdessus, with the title: "The Most Powerful Frenchman in the World."

Today, his successor, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), handcuffed and grave in ubiquitous front-page photos, is the most humiliated Frenchman in the world.

One unanticipated result of the lurid New York sex scandal involving DSK is that the question of his successor is attracting an unprecedented level of public interest and concern. Indeed, the scandal has exposed some fundamental problems about the IMF's governance, and even about its existence.

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The IMF after dsk

PRINCETON: How the mighty International Monetary Fund has fallen. More than a decade ago, the French magazine Paris Match carried a picture of the Fund's then Managing Director, Michel Camdessus, with the title: "The Most Powerful Frenchman in the World."