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AmericasSeptember 1 2017

Where will Trump take US-IMF relationship?

The White House has pushed back heavily on today’s multilateral world order. So how will the relationship between the International Monetary Fund and its largest shareholder, the US, evolve under the Trump administration? Stefania Palma reports.
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On his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. Five months later, the US opted out of the Paris climate agreement.  

The first departure was seen as a blow to multilateralism; the second as a blow to the collective fight against climate change. Both of these values sit at the core of today’s International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose largest shareholder is the US. So how will the relationship between the US and the IMF fare under the Trump administration? 

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