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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a news conference during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

IMF head says more needed to boost growth than US-China deal

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

IMF welcomes attempt to resolve dispute in Ecuador

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2019, file photo, a woman walks by a money exchange shop decorated with different countries currency banknotes at Central, a business district in Hong Kong. The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook comes on the eve of meetings in Washington this week of the IMF and its sister lending organization, the World Bank. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

IMF downgrades outlook for world economy, citing trade wars

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

The national auditor's office building burns during clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. President Lenín Moreno ordered the army onto the streets of Ecuador's capital Saturday after a week and a half of protests over fuel prices devolved into violent incidents, with masked protesters attacking a television station, newspaper and the national auditor's office. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuador indigenous, president strike deal to end protests

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019 file photo, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno addresses the Climate Action Summit in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. In announcing the fuel subsidy cut in early Oct. 2019, he said he would propose legislation for a special three-year tax on companies with annual revenue over $10 million, with the funds to go to education, health and safety. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

A look at who’s who in Ecuador’s deadly political crisis

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2018, file photo the World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva speaks during the forum Frontiers in Anticorruption at the World Bank/IMF annual spring meeting in Washington. Georgieva, the new head of the 189-nation International Monetary Fund, says the world economy is in the grips of a “synchronized global slowdown” that will result in slower growth for 90% of the world this year. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

IMF chief: trade conflicts fuel synchronized global slowdown

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

People lay flowers as they gather outside the burnt trade union building to commemorate the five-year anniversary of deadly clashes which killed dozens of demonstrators supporting Ukraine's government and pro-Russia protesters, in Odessa, Ukraine, Thursday, May 2, 2019. Five years after 48 people died in clashes in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, including dozens in a burning building, the UN human rights monitoring mission in the country is criticizing authorities for delays in prosecution and investigation of the violence. (AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)

Hasn’t Ukraine suffered enough?

By Richard W. Rahn

IMF not saying when Argentina could get last disbursement

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2018, file photo, the World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the World Bank/IMF annual spring meeting in Washington. Georgieva, a top official at the World Bank, was chosen by the IMF’s executive board on Wednesday to become the IMF’s managing director. She succeeds Christine Lagarde who is stepping down to take over as head of the European Central Bank. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Economist who grew up in communist Bulgaria is new IMF chief

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

IMF staff concludes second review of Ecuador program

Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis center left, and Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, center right, arrive at a meeting in Athens, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Mitsotakis chaired Wednesday a meeting of cabinet ministers on economic policy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece seeks Europe’s OK to repay part of IMF loans early

Associated Press

FILE - In a Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a panel at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Georgieva is in line to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund after the organization said Monday, September 9, 2019 Kristalina Georgieva is the one nominated for the job.(Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

World Bank official in line for top job at IMF

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

IMF dispatches technical staff team to Argentina

Associated Press

Presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez, left, addresses supporters next to his partner Fabiola Yanez outside the &quot;Frente de Todos&quot; party headquarters after primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. The &quot;Frente de Todos&quot; presidential ticket with former President Cristina Fernández emerged as the strongest vote-getter in Argentina's primary elections Sunday, indicating conservative President Mauricio Macri will face an uphill battle going into general elections in October.(AP Photo/Tomas F. Cuesta)

Argentina candidate rules out default as an option

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA - Associated Press

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri, left, talks to new Argentina's Treasury Minister Hernan Lacunza at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. Lacunza replaced Nicolas Dujove after the minister resigned. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

New Argentina treasury minister guarantees peso stability

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, a vendor counts his money at a bread stand in the Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. A Monday, July 29, 2019 report said one in every three Egyptian citizens was living in poverty in 2018. The country's statistics agency said 32.5% of Egyptians lived below the poverty line that year, up from 27.8% in 2015 and 16.7% in 2000. Monday's report was the first on poverty and income since the government secured a $12 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in 2016. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt says it received final, $2 billion portion of IMF loan

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2018, file photo, the World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the World Bank/IMF annual spring meeting in Washington. European governments have decided to put forward Georgieva from Bulgaria as their candidate to replace Christine Lagarde as head of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Europe pushes World Bank official Georgieva for top IMF job

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

IMF sees a weaker global economy but upgrades US forecast

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, Deputy Prime Minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos, center, and Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, left, take the oath during a swearing in ceremony at the parliament in Athens, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Greece held its first parliamentary session after the general elections held on July 7. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greece gets nod from creditors to ease bailout-era taxes

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

In this April 13, 2019, file photo, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks during a news conference after the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) conference at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, Lagarde said Tuesday, July 16, 2019, she will resign as managing director of the International Monetary Fund in light of her nomination to be the next president of the European Central Bank. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, resigns in advance of ECB post

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press