Heather Stewart, The Observer
July 16, 2006

Britain is pushing for a radical shake-up of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, including an end to the post Second World War stitch-up which split the top jobs between Europe and the US, reports Heather Stewart for The Observer [PDF] .

In its white paper on Britain’s development policies, published last week, the Department for International Development said, ‘Some parts of the international system have become either too complicated and inefficient or simply do not work at all.’