IMF Managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn delivered a keynote address at a CGD-hosted event garnering significant media coverage. Here are a few excerpts from the coverage.
IMF Says Poorer Nations Need $55 Billion in Aid (Wall Street Journal)
From the article:
""I do expect a recovery in 2010, when low-income countries should be able to ride the wave of rising world demand. But we cannot take things for granted," he said in prepared remarks to the Center for Global Development."
IMF Reform Hope (Financial Times)
From the article:
"Mr Strauss-Kahn said the meeting in Pittsburgh would test whether countries would act together as the crisis began to ease. “We’re still at the point where national concerns, domestic problems may overcome,” he said in comments after a speech to the Centre for Global Development in Washington."
IMF Chief Urges More Aid for Poorest Countries (Reuters)
From the article:
"Speaking to the Center for Global Development a week before next week's Group of 20 leaders' gathering in Pittsburgh, the IMF managing director estimated that low-income countries need another $55 billion in financing for this year and next."
IMF Chief Urges more Aid for Poor Countries (Agence France Presse)
From the article:
""Low-income countries need about 55 billion dollars in additional external financing for this year and next," the IMF managing director said at the Center for Global Development."
Poor Countries Need $55bn of Extra Aid, Says IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Telegraph UK)
From the article:
"Speaking at the Center for Global Development in Washington, Mr Strauss-Kahn said that although he expected a global recovery in 2010, poorer countries would remain at risk and could suffer after-effects for years to come."