International Monetary Fund
- Nabila El Hadad
- • March 6, 2016
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Everyday, from dawn to dusk, under intense sunshine, thousands of women travel to work through the streets of this capital of nearly three million inhabitants, managing like tightrope walkers the dusty, cratered roads, slaloming between…
- Christine Lagarde
- • February 25, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 21st century poses many challenges that require new ways of thinking, none more important than the economic role of women in a rapidly changing world. The global economy is struggling to generate the growth that…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 3, 2014
BAMAKO, Mali — As the first United States-African leaders summit opens this week in Washington, D.C, it is hard to hear Malians in their capital drum up enthusiasm for it. President Barack Obama has invited 50 African heads of…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Governance, UN Peacekeeping, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 16, 2014
In a direct challenge to Western control of two major international financial organizations, the five countries known as the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — announced on July 15 the formation of a new development…
- Categories: Development
- Helmut Volger
- • April 16, 2014
Working most of the time, far away from the attention of the world public, an international organization was recently in the limelight: the World Trade Organization. After lengthy negotiations on liberalization measures in world trade, which started in 2001…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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