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  "title": "More Diversity will Help the IMF at Work",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, June 1, 2011",
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  "summary": "Nemat Shafik, who took over as IMF Deputy Managing Director in April, says she has been surprised by the vigor of internal policy debate at the IMF.",
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    {
      "heading": "Internal debate and institutional culture",
      "content": "- Nemat Shafik, who took over as IMF Deputy Managing Director in April, says she has been surprised by the vigor of internal policy debate at the IMF.\n- From the outside, the IMF can appear “a monolith with a very single-minded view of the world.” Inside, what is “really striking is how active the internal debate is.”\n- The IMF is described as a “highly professional and respectful workplace,” but Shafik acknowledges the institution “could nonetheless do better.”"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Current global context shaping IMF priorities",
      "content": "- The global economy is being buffeted by continued uncertainty in Europe, uprisings in the Middle East, and signs of overheating in some emerging market economies.\n- These global developments increase the volume and intensity of issues for the IMF to discuss and respond to."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Gender diversity progress and target",
      "content": "- Progress has been made on diversity of gender.\n- Women at the IMF have spoken out against recent criticisms of the workplace.\n- The IMF is committed to a new target of recruiting 50 percent women at all levels going forward."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Broader diversity beyond gender and nationality",
      "content": "- The IMF needs to look beyond nationality and gender to wider diversity issues, including:\n  - educational background\n  - diversity of work experience\n  - diversity of perspective"
    },
    {
      "heading": "How diversity affects IMF work and advice",
      "content": "- A wider variety of views within the institution can enrich the existing internal debate.\n- Greater internal diversity can better help shape IMF policies and advice to the institution’s 187 member countries.\n\niMFdirect, June 1, 2011\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Nemat Shafik\n- diversity\n- work in tackling global problems\n- Middle East\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2011/06/01/more-diversity-will-help-the-imf-at-work"
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    "Authors: iMFdirect",
    "Published: June 1, 2011",
    "Nemat Shafik, who took over as IMF Deputy Managing Director in April, says she has been surprised by the vigor of internal policy debate at the IMF.",
    "From the outside, the IMF can appear “a monolith with a very single-minded view of the world.” Inside, what is “really striking is how active the internal debate is.”",
    "The IMF is described as a “highly professional and respectful workplace,” but Shafik acknowledges the institution “could nonetheless do better.”",
    "The global economy is being buffeted by continued uncertainty in Europe, uprisings in the Middle East, and signs of overheating in some emerging market economies.",
    "These global developments increase the volume and intensity of issues for the IMF to discuss and respond to.",
    "Progress has been made on diversity of gender.",
    "Women at the IMF have spoken out against recent criticisms of the workplace.",
    "The IMF is committed to a new target of recruiting 50 percent women at all levels going forward.",
    "The IMF needs to look beyond nationality and gender to wider diversity issues, including:",
    "A wider variety of views within the institution can enrich the existing internal debate.",
    "Greater internal diversity can better help shape IMF policies and advice to the institution’s 187 member countries.",
    "[Nemat Shafik](http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/mns.htm)",
    "[diversity](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2010/NEW110510A.htm)",
    "[work in tackling global problems](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2011/INT052611A.htm)",
    "[Middle East](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2011/NEW052711A.htm)"
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