IMF chief warns gov’ts against complacency

The crisis mood is gone, but that doesn’t mean you can slip back into your old ways—that’s the message from top international finance officials wrapping up the World Economic Forum here.

The crisis mood is gone, but that doesn’t mean you can slip back into your old ways—that’s the message from top international finance officials wrapping up the World Economic Forum here.

The International Monetary Fund has tempered its outlook on the global economy for 2013, which the institution sees as a “make-or-break” year likely fraught with a fragile economic recovery and high uncertainties.

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), believed that Asia was the early bird that caught the worm.
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is supportive of the plan of Southeast Asian countries to integrate their economies starting 2015 as she expresses the belief that this will help the Philippines and its neighbors improve standards of living and trim poverty in the region.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, who according to reports is in the Asean region on a three-country swing, has this to say about good taxation: One, the tax must have a broad base and, two, it must only be a small rate.
So President Aquino was down with the flu last week, leaving International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde no choice but to meet with Vice President Jejomar Binay instead.
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is in Manila for a two-day visit that concludes Friday as part of her tour of Asia.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has called for a public dialogue this Friday on a proposed compliance framework to address the Supreme Court’s ruling on the foreign equity in telecom giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co.—a ruling that also affects utilities and industries subject to the 40-percent constitutional cap on foreign ownership.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Christine Lagarde will visit the country this month to discuss the role of emerging economies in helping resolve global economic woes.
The International Monetary Fund wrapped up meetings here Saturday with its coffers to fight the eurozone crisis $430 billion richer.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday measures taken to fight financial woes in Europe and the United States were starting to pay off, in a cautiously upbeat assessment of the global economy.
PARIS—A French court ordered a probe for embezzlement and other fraud-related charges against IMF head Christine Lagarde dating to her time as France’s finance minister, a prosecutor said Thursday. The prosecutor specified the charges after the court ordered magistrates to investigate Lagarde’s role in settling a financial dispute. She has denied any wrongdoing and her [...]