An election with only one candidate? Sounds like a stitch-up. But with nominations just closed, the one candidate in the forthcoming poll, Madame Lagarde, will be re-elected as Managing Director of the IMF regardless. To many, this may seem unremarkable. Mme Lagarde is stylish, engaging, and a welcome breath of fresh feminine air among technocrats, politicians, and her predecessors. She’s doing an earnest job that, in the global scheme of things, doesn’t really matter, except to people who don’t really count. And among those who do count, the charge that her credibility is compromised by selection bias that excludes Americans …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
