PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday used an international forum to issue a call for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to increase their aid to small and vulnerable economies. Persad-Bissessar was speaking at the United Nations General Assembly Thematic debate “The UN and Global Economic Governance” in New York. She stressed that global economic governance and reform, as articulated by the G24 Central Bank officials and finance ministers last year at the IMF-World Bank Annual General Meetings, must reflect the growing role of emerging market developing countries as a whole in the global economy, while enhancing the voice and representation of poor and small low and middle income countries.
