Then International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde (right) waves from her office in Washington on September 20 after meeting her successor Kristalina Georgieva. The anachronistic “gentlemen’s agreement” that has kept an American in charge of the World Bank and a European in charge of the IMF has proved resilient. Photo: AFP
Then International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde (right) waves from her office in Washington on September 20 after meeting her successor Kristalina Georgieva. The anachronistic “gentlemen’s agreement” that has kept an American in charge of the World Bank and a European in charge of the IMF has proved resilient. Photo: AFP