Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Introduction and overview / Colin I. Bradford Jr. and Johannes Linn -- International institutional reform -- IMF reform : congruence with global governance reform / Jack Boorman -- Strengthening the IMF : lessons from history / James M. Boughton -- The World Bank :...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivered this address at the Library of Congress as part of the Library's Henry A. Kissinger Lecture Series in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 2018

All of the GCC countries - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - are undergoing historic socio-economic transitions. They are facing enormous strains on public finances and challenging economic outlooks, due to fluctuating oil prices, demographic pressures,...