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Michael Kooymans

Working paper

Governance of the international financial institutions: the case for merit-based selection of agency heads


The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the President of the World Bank are appointed under a 60 year old unwritten convention that the Managing Director is nominated by the countries of Western Europe while the President is nominated by the United States. All ten Bank Presidents since 1946 have been US citizens...

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