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Christine Lagarde

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Christine Lagarde
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Christine Madeleine Odette Lallouette
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Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.
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Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.
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The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.
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Those negatively affected by globalization, those who are losing their jobs, and losing their skills, people out of training, must be looked after. Governments must establish policies, and governments and companies must actually address that issue, so that those who lose out from globalization can be retrained, recycled, re-established, cared for.
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In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.
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Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.
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People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.
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Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.
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Of course, trade agreements can be beneficial, but of course they need to avoid infringing on certain areas and respect diversity.
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Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis.
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I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.
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I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
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Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
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We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.
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When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.
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I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.
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Women, as the minority, have to prove their worth all the time. That's the reason we tend to over-prepare, over-study, over-anticipate. I think it's the case with many women leaders. We tend to over do it.
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To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
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It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.
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Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.
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