International Monetary Fund’s Economic Counsellor and Research Department Director Raghuram Rajan answers a question during a press conference on the World Economic Outlook (WEO) at the Suntec Covention Center in Singapore September 14, 2006. The IMF and the World Bank normally meet once a year in the autumn for a two-day plenary session to discuss the work of their respective institutions. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe