What a great idea and this is positive change.
Group of 20 finance leaders struck a landmark deal on Saturday to boost developing countries' power in the International Monetary Fund even as they failed to set targets for a wide-ranging global economic rebalancing.And as a side note, Strauss-Kahn could likely be the Socialist candidate in France to run against Sarkozy in 2012. Recent polls have shown him to be very popular.
The IMF deal was hailed by fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a "historical" moment that will see Europeans give up two seats on its 24-strong board to powerful developing countries and transfer 6 percent of votes to them.
"This makes for the biggest reform ever in the governance of the institution," Strauss-Kahn, who heads the 187 country body, told reporters.