Note: Translated from Spanish using Google Translate.
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For the first time, two women will be the chief economists of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF): Penny Goldberg and Gita Gopinath, respectively, which breaks the ceiling of crystal of decades in the large international financial institutions.
All this in the wake of Christine Lagarde, the first managing director of the IMF in its more than 70 years of history
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"They are fascinating appointments," said Nancy Birdsall, president emeritus of the Center For Global Development in Washington.
"In fact, the best possible woman may be better than the best possible man given that she has had to overcome hidden barriers that her male colleagues do not face," Birdsall remarked.
In both cases, said the expert, the fundamental thing is that they contribute visions that are considered "challenging conventional wisdom".
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