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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn addresses the Boards of Governors of the IMF and World Bank Group during the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings at DAR Constitution Hall October 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. International Monetary Fund. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 13, 2008
Finance Minister of Egypt and Chairman of the IMF's International Monetary and Financial Committee Youssef Boutros-Ghali speaks during the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings at the DAR Constitution Hall October 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 13, 2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick (L) shakes hands with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a joint press conference at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC to review outcomes from the Development Committee meeting on October 12, 2008. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
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October 12, 2008
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) answers a question during a press conference at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC after the Development Committee meeting October 12, 2008. Joining Mr. Srauss-Kahn is World Bank President Robert Zoellick (C) and Development Committee Chairman Agustin Carstens (L). IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
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October 12, 2008
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) confers with Finance Minister of Egypt and Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee Youssef Boutros-Ghali (R) prior to the start of the International Monetary and Financial Committee’s meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. Boutros-Ghali is the first IMFC head from an emerging market and a developing country. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 11, 2008
U.S. President George W. Bush (C) talks in the Rose Garden after meeting with G7 finance ministers and heads of international finance institutions at the White House in Washington, October 11, 2008. Also pictured behind him are (L-R): Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Italy's Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Germany's Finance Minster Peer Steinbrueck and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
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October 11, 2008
Egyptian Finance Minister and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Youssef Bourtos-Ghali (2nd R), International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C), IMF's First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky (2nd L) and IMF Secretary Shailendra Anjaria (R) attend the meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee October 11, 2008 at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photographer/Stephen Jaffe
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October 11, 2008
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn briefs journalists on the outcomes of the International Financial Monetary and Financial Committee meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. October 11, 2008. © IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 11, 2008
Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Minister of Finance of Egypt Youssef Boutros-Ghali during the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) press conference at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. October 11, 2008. © IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 11, 2008
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and a Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Hamad al Suwaidi (M) and Finance Minister of Egypt and Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee Youssef Boutros-Ghali (R) at a meeting with The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG). The IWG today presented the Santiago Principles to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met in Washington D.C. to consult about global economic developments and to take stock of the working group’s efforts. Finance Ministers, IWG representatives, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission, also took the opportunity to discuss the Principles and SWF issues in this separate meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008 IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 11, 2008
David Murray, Chairman of the Australian Future Fund and Chair of the The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Fund's (IWG) Drafting Group, at a press conference following the IWG's presentation of the "Santiago Principles" to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 11, 2008
Hamad al Suwaidi, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and a Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, at a press conference after the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG) today presented the "Santiago Principles" to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. Mr. al Suwaidi is co-chairman of the IWG. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
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October 11, 2008
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) and the Governor of the Central Bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chairman of the G-24 Meeting (R) Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo prior to the opening of the Group of 24 Ministers Meeting during the Annual Meetings of the IMF/World Bank at IMF Headquarters in Washington DC. October 10, 2008. © IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 10, 2008
International Monetary Fund African Department Director Antoinette Sayeh speaks during the Regional Economic Outlook on Sub-Saharan Africa press conference on October 10, 2008, at IMF Headquarters in Washington DC. © IMF Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 10, 2008
(L-R) Director of the G24 Secretariat Amar Bhattacharya, First Vice Chair of the G24 Adib Mayaleh, Deputy Chair of the G24 wa Bilenga Tshishimbi, Chair of the G24 Jean-Claude Masangu Mulongo, and Second Vice-Chair of the G24 Rogerio Studart during the G24 Deputies press conference at IMF Headquarters in Washington DC. October 10, 2008. (c) IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 10, 2008
World Bank President Robert Zoellick speaks at a press conference at the IMF Headquarters October 9, 2008 in Washington, DC. International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
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October 9, 2008
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C) discusses the challenges facing the global financial system ahead of the 2008 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank Board of Governors with IMF First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky (L) and IMF Director of the External Relations Department Masood Ahmed (R), at IMF Headquarters on October 9, 2008 in Washington, DC. The Managing Director highlighted five sets of actions needed to deal with the financial crisis. IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar
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October 9, 2008
Olivier Blanchard, the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, during the World Economic Outlook (WEO) press conference, October 8, 2008 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington DC. The world economy is entering a major downturn in the face of the most dangerous financial shock in mature financial markets since the 1930s, according to the WEO. © IMF Staff Photographer Eugene Salazar
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October 8, 2008

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