{"id":10178,"date":"2012-04-23T04:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/analysis-lagardes-next-battle-at-imf-power-shift\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T04:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:24:44","slug":"analysis-lagardes-next-battle-at-imf-power-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/analysis-lagardes-next-battle-at-imf-power-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS-Lagarde&#8217;s next battle at IMF: power shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Fixes typo in first name of Indian finance minister in<br \/>\nparagraph 6)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging powers seek to extract concessions on vote<br \/>\nreforms<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hold off on announcing IMF funds until June<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pressure on U.S. to ratify 2010 IMF voting changes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Fresh from a big victory in<br \/>\nraising $430 billion for the International Monetary Fund,<br \/>\nChristine Lagarde&#8217;s tougher test as head of the global lender<br \/>\nwill be finding a way to give emerging economies more influence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To do this, the former French finance minister will need to<br \/>\nconvince the Fund&#8217;s dominant powers &#8211; the United States and<br \/>\nEurope &#8211; to sign off on voting reforms agreed in 2010 and accept<br \/>\nfurther changes by January 2014.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Lagarde passed around the hat among finance ministers<br \/>\nlast week to raise funds to contain the euro zone&#8217;s debt crisis,<br \/>\nChina, India, Brazil and Russia said they would be part of the<br \/>\neffort but chose not to announce each of their contributions<br \/>\nuntil a June summit of the Group of 20 leading economies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Europe may have to yield something in return.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fixes typo in first name of Indian finance minister in paragraph 6) * Emerging powers seek to extract concessions on vote reforms * Hold off on announcing IMF funds until June * Pressure on U.S. to ratify 2010 IMF voting changes By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Fresh from a big victory in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}