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HARDtalk - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

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Can President Obama lead America and the wider world out of a prolonged economic slump? Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. His mission is to promote international financial stability, but as economies beyond Wall Street suffer the effects of the crisis, this seems to be in short supply. Stephen Sackur asks what use the IMF is when world economies go into turmoil.