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Demonstrators clash with riot police as thousands march against Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno's decision to slash fuel subsidies, in Quito on October 9, 2019

Economic reforms have sparked the biggest protests in decades in Ecuador

Haiti's rich-poor divide is vast -- in this neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, tiny cement-block homes and makeshift shelters fashioned from plastic and tarps line the narrow, trash-filled lanes

Georgieva said the IMF will cut its forecast for global growth amid a 'synchronized slowdown'

Protesters clashed with Ecuadoran forces Monday as they marched toward the capital to demonstrate against soaring fuel prices, with the government announcing three oil facilities had been seized, slashing production by 12 percent.Riot police and the military used tear gas to try to disperse marchers in the town of Machachi on the outskirts of Quito after they blocked roads with burning tires and barricades ahead of a protest set for Wednesday.

Indigenous people and farmers travel on trucks on their way to Quito in protest against the government's economic policies

A demonstrator clashes with riot police during a transport strike against the economic policies of President Lenin Moreno's government

Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has stepped up his anti-corruption rhetoric in recent months

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in annual speech that his government's economic reforms "are beginning to bear fruit"

Some fear a return of the bad old hyperinflation days

Georgieva survived a challenge within the European Union from Germany, which backed a Dutch former finance minister

Egypt's government has taken no chances and arrested over 600 people after hundreds of Egyptians protested against the president's rule last week

Egyptian protesters in the highly symbolic Tahrir square overnight, demanding Sisi step down

Outgoing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde visited Africa every year during her tenure

Christine Lagarde is expected to take over leadership of the European Central bank and calls for policymakers to address manmade threats to global growth

Outgoing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde gives an exclusive interview to AFP journalists at the IMF headquarters in Washington

Mario Draghi is scheduled to hand over the reins of the ECB to Christine Lagarde

Greece has asked for early repayment of its IMF loan, according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in an image from September 7, 2019

Argentina's newly appointed Economy Minister Hernan Lacunza will discuss next steps with the International Monetary Fund in Washington

Kristalina Georgieva, a top World Bank executive, has a clear path to lead the International Monetary Fund

President Donald Trump's campaign manager hints at a political future for some of the Trump children.

China's leadership under President Xi Jinping, seen here with US President Trump during the G20 summit in Japan in June, has shown little sign of giving in to US trade pressure

Consumer spending remains robust, supporting growth in the US economy as businesses pull back on investments due to the trade war

Argentina's Finance Minister Hernan Lacunza gestures during a press conference to announce new economic measures in Buenos Aires, on August 28, 2019

Seeking 'political credibility as a reform government'

The International Monetary Fund said it will "continue to stand with Argentina during these challenging times"

Edgar Fernandez keeps a mariachi suit in a rusty wardrobe at the public hospital in Caracas where he works as a nurse, donning it for performances that augment his meager salary.Given that he earns just $10 a month, the money from these shows has been his salvation in crisis-wracked Venezuela, where nurses have been forced to reinvent themselves as home entrepreneurs, security guards or builders just to survive.

Kristalina Georgieva, the EU's candidate to serve as IMF managing director, turned 66 on August 13, 2019, making her just a few days too old to lead the organization according to rules in place since 1951

Argentina's newly appointed Economy Minister Hernan Lacunza has pledged to stabilize the country's currency