Christine Lagarde wants to jumpstart inclusive growth: Why she should enlist cities (Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

The International Monetary Fund downgraded its forecast for global growth last week during the Fund’s annual meeting in Washington. In her keynote remarks, Managing Director Christine Lagarde made a forceful argument to the finance ministers in attendance that a period in which “growth has been too low, for too long, and benefiting too few” has frayed social and political commitments to global integration and openness to trade and immigration.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/10/17/christine-lagarde-wants-to-jumpstart-inclusive-growth-why-she-should-enlist-cities/