[BWP Alert] Appointment of next IMF head

[BWP Alert] Appointment of next IMF head - campaigners demand fair selection process

With the resignation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a global coalition of campaigners has called for an open and merit-based process to elect the next IMF head. The early departure of Strauss-Kahn means the 187 member governments of the IMF will have to select a new managing director during a time of grave economic uncertainty. It also reopens the debate over an anachronistic and unfair selection process.

To read more about this go to
http://imfboss.org/2011/05/19/campaigners-demand-fair-selection-process-after-strauss-kahn-resigns/

or visit the Bretton Woods Project website: http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-568431


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