Tainting IMF's Georgieva: The U.S. Campaign to Tighten the Grip on Bretton Woods Institutions in Its Escalating Competition with China

... anthropologist Jason Hickel, the Global North uses the IMF and the World Bank for this purpose. By tradition under an unwritten transatlantic agreement, Europe has to select the managing directors of the IMF while the U.S. chooses presidents of the World Bank. Kristalina Georgieva is the second woman to have run the IMF, following the current European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde. In the BRICS Sanya Declaration issued in April 2011, the members declared that “the voice of emerging and developing ...