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STORY: IMF / IMFC PRESSER
TRT: 2:37
SOURCE: IMF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 APRIL 2017, WASHINGTON DC
1. Wide shot, IMFC news conference
2. Wide shot, photographers and journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Agustín Carstens, Chair, International Monetary Fund Committee (IMFC):
“We stressed the importance of the three pronged approach of mutually reinforcing monetary, fiscal, and structural policies. At the same time, we recognize that trade, financial integration, and technological progress have broad vast benefits, improving living standards, and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. However, the prolonged period of low growth has brought to the fore the concerns of those who have been left behind.”
4. Wide shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
“There was a clear recognition in the room that we have probably moved from high financial and economic risks to more geopolitical risks. There was also clear recognition in the room that policies going forward are going to be needed in order to move from that growth momentum to more sharing and more inclusive growth.”
4. Med shot, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
“At a time when growth is picking up, where there is that momentum, and to avoid the syndrome of the green shoots turning brown, there is a recognition that we need to secure what has been conducive to growth.”
6. Close up, reporter asking question
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Agustín Carstens, Chair, International Monetary Fund Committee (IMFC):
“For the first time in several, I would say, years the Global Policy Agenda of the Managing Director was fully supported by all the membership.”
8. Med shot, reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF):
“There are really issues about inclusiveness within countries, across countries, and across generations. And, all of that is encapsulated in the proposals that I have put to the IMFC under the leadership of Mr. Carstens, for their review and approval. For the first time, ever since I have become Managing Director, the whole Global Policy Agenda has been approved, at large, without restrictions.”
10. Med shot, photographers and reporters
11.Wide shot, dais IMF officials ending the news conference
The world’s financial leaders vowed to work together to support strong economic growth while helping those who have been left behind.
In a news conference on Saturday (22 Apr) after the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the membership realized “we have probably moved from high financial and economic risks to more geopolitical risks.”
She also noted that for the first time in her tenure, the proposed Global Policy Agenda was approved by the entire membership. Lagarde said the IMF will follow that framework to promote inclusive and broad-based growth.
