Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a very interesting read. It’s the Inaugural Bank of Thailand Policy Forum – Dinner Speech, b y Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in Bangkok, Thursday, July 12, 2012.

via New Perspectives on Asia’s Role in the Global Economy, Inaugural Bank of Thailand Policy Forum – Dinner Speech By Christine Lagarde, IMF.

For me, there were lots of interesting insights here. I noted the downgrade of global growth and cautious optimism on Europe but candid recognition that there’s a long way to go. The majority of the speech was an attempt to harness the IMF to the Asian growth wagon.

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