Meu amigo Alexandre A. Rocha enviou-me este artigo que até agora não tinha conseguido inserir no blog. Trata-se de análise interessante do porquê se fez a distribuição das diretorias do Banco Mundial e do Fundo Monetário Internacional entre os EUA e a Europa.
Vale muito a pena conferir! Atenção especial à influência da espionagem no processo…
Banker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
By BENN STEIL
PRESIDENT OBAMA recently nominated Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth, to be the next president of the World Bank — a privilege accorded to the United States since the bank’s founding in 1946. A European, in turn, gets to run the International Monetary Fund.
In the wake of World War II, such a divvying up of the top spots among the great powers was inevitable. But how did the United States, the primary founder and financer of the two institutions, wind up taking the helm of the World Bank, and not the I.M.F., which was of vastly greater importance to its government? Continuar lendo
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