That set the finance ministers of the G20 Friday after their meeting about the spring meeting of the IMF.
The 188 IMF member countries agreed in 2010 already on the relationships on the board of the Fund on the shovel would go so emerging economies would have a greater voice. However, this reform has still not implemented, because the US Congress continues to refuse to agree.
The G20 therefore believes that intermediate measures should be taken to emerging countries yet to give a greater voice. The IMF has previously made known to explore the possibilities for this. DNB president Klaas Knot gave Friday, however, that no decision is taken here provisionally on in Washington. ” The priority remains to Plan A, ” he said.
Knot pointed out that President Barack Obama is a big supporter of the reform. The opposition from Republicans. ” We have to ask ourselves whether intermediate steps help us to achieve the ultimate goal, ” says Knot. ” We sail while on estimates of the US government. ”
The proposed new voting ratio is associated with an expansion of the effectiveness of the IMF. Countries impose thereby additional capital in which the extent to which it contributes translated into the new voting weights.
The Netherlands a few years ago in anticipation of the reforms, by adding his place on the board along with that from Belgium. Therefore this weekend Belgium takes the honors in the deliberations of the Finance Ministers. The Dutch Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem is also in Washington, but there occurs primarily as the chairman of the Eurogroup
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