Recently, Lagarde, a French female economist, was selected as the new International Monetary Fund Chief. Does this signify gender progress for the IMF or does this media attention on gender deflect Third World problems caused by the IMF?
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For the full story, click on the audio news report. This news report is part of an undergraduate project for Chicano/a Studies 189 "Immigration and the U.S./Mexico Border" Summer 2011 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. There are seven other "border news reports" available online.