ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.

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  1. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) shares a laugh with Egypt's Finance Minister and Chairman of the IMFC Youssef Boutros-Ghali (C) and World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (R) before the start of the Development Committee meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 5, 2009. The Development Committee is a forum of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that facilitates intergovernmental consensus building on development issues.
  2. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.
  3. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.
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  5. Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy (R) speaks with the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Harsh Pati Singhania at the opening session of the 'WTO and Doha Negotiations' meeting in New Delhi on September 3, 2009. Trade ministers assembled in New Delhi for a two-day WTO meeting from September 3, aimed at bridging differences between developed and developing nations and putting global trade talks back on track. The two days of informal ministerial level talks are billed as key to laying the groundwork for further progress at a meeting of leaders of the Group of 20 wealthy and emerging nations in Pittsburgh in late September.
  6. Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Pascal Lamy (L) speaks with Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises, Telecommunication and Senior Vice-President of FICCI, Rajan Bharti Mittal at the opening session of the 'WTO and Doha Negotiations' meeting in New Delhi on September 3, 2009. Trade ministers assembled in New Delhi for a two-day WTO meeting from September 3, aimed at bridging differences between developed and developing nations and putting global trade talks back on track. The two days of informal ministerial level talks are billed as key to laying the groundwork for further progress at a meeting of leaders of the Group of 20 wealthy and emerging nations in Pittsburgh in late September.
  7. ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetary and Financial Comittee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey. An allocation of 4bn USD (2.5bn GBP), which will go into the IMF new loan facility, has been announced by the French and British government to help poorer countries.
  8. World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 4, 2009. Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe. are in Istanbul for the semiannual meetings of the. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which run from Oct.. 4-7.
  9. French Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, speaks to visitors at the WTO headquarters during an open house in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.
  10. Visitors enter the World Trade Organization headquarters during an open house at the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.
  11. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy reacts during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  12. World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks during a business meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi September 4, 2009. Key trade ministers met on Thursday to work out how to turn political leaders' pledges to complete the Doha round trade talks by 2010 into reality.
  13. International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) shakes hands with Argentina's Economy Minister Amado Boudou during a meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center October 6, 2009. Argentina has still not reached a decision on allowing a mission from the International Monetary Fund to review the country's economy, Boudou said on Wednesday on C5N television. Picture taken on October 6, 2009.
  14. Turkish protestors chant slogans during a anti-International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank protest near the summit area in Istanbul on October 7, 2009.
  15. Turkish protestors face riot police during a anti-International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank protest near the summit area in Istanbul on October 7, 2009.
  16. International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) shakes hands with the incoming Development Chairman Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa at the Istanbul Congress Center October 6, 2009.

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