International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L), Mexico's Finance Minister and Chairman Agustin Carstens (C) and World Bank President Robert Zoellick (R) hold a joint news conference after their 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. Reuters Pictures logo Reuters Pictures 28 months ago

International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L), Mexico's Finance Minister and Chairman Agustin Carstens (C) and World Bank President Robert Zoellick (R) hold a joint news conference after their 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.

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