News on further indecision about new IMF boss.
Key statements and articles on the 2004 selection process for the Managing Director of the IMF.
Outgoing Spanish Economy Minister Rodrigo Rato emerged as a leading European candidate to head the IMF on Wednesday, but his chances of getting the nod were later thrown into doubt on reports that France would not back him.
The World Bank has formally reopened a corruption inquiry into a leading Canadian engineering company which could lead to the first blacklisting of a major international firm.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner are scheduled to sign a political and economic agreement tomorrow that includes adopting a common position from which to negotiate their debts to the International Monetary Fund.
Developing countries -- the main clients of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank -- should have more say in the policy of those institutions, say African central bank governors and finance officials.
Developing countries have staked a claim for the top job at the International Monetary Fund for the first time following the resignation of managing director Horst Kohler who is to be the president of Germany.
Rodrigo Rato's position as Europe's frontrunner to replace Horst Koehler as head of the International Monetary Fund was strengthened on Tuesday at a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels.
Argentina has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to repay a $3.1 billion loan it owed to the fund, avoiding announcing a new default.
New BWP briefing finds the World Bank counted 70 per cent of energy-sector reforms in Development Policy Financing as having 'climate co-benefits' between 2018-2023 - but most of these promoted a private-led energy transition.
