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Keywords: News
Added: February 9, 2010

Michael Ellis (1st Secretary for Global Issues - British Embassy Brasília) talks to David Stanton, DFID Deputy for World Bank Reform, about Brazilian perspective on International Financial Institutions.

Dec 10, 2008 Gordon Brown slips up in PMQs, claiming the Labour government "saved the world" in their reaction to the banking crisis. A pressured Michael Martin attempts to control the ensuing uproar.

Sargon Nissan of the New Economics Foundation speaking at the Bretton Woods Project seminar on the Financial Crisis - putting together a coherent civil society response.

Audio of the presentation is avalable as an MP3 file here

A little bit of historic footage: "At the international monetary conference of 1944 allied governments - led by the US and UK - founded the IMF and World Bank."

On Saturday 10th April 2010, protesters sent a message to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who was giving a speech at the inaugural conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) conference in Kings College, Cambridge.