Dominique Strauss-Kahn

HARDtalk: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 21 January, Stephen Sackur talks to, IMF Managing Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn .

Can President Obama lead America and the wider world out of a prolonged economic slump?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. His mission is to promote international financial stability.

But as economies beyond Wall Street suffer the effects of the crisis, this seems to be in short supply.

When world economies go into turmoil Stephen Sackur asks what use is the IMF.

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