Thrust into the breach during one of the worst economic crises in decades, Christine Lagarde, the new head of the International Monetary Fund, has become one of the world's most powerful women. Lara Logan reports.

In this video, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer discusses April 2000 protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Agent Ethan Hunt and his IMF team are forced to go underground when they are implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin and marked as international terrorists, but in their efforts to clear their names the team uncovers a plot to start a nuclear war.

Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial communit

Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery that haunts them,

"This is the riveting tale of Argentina's sovereign debt drama, a complicated story that unfolds over 15 years and involves a host of characters, institutions, and issues. The country defaulted on its debt in 2001, restructured it in 2005, and was in court for the ensuing decade. The debt restructuring and the lawsuits that followed have had an outsized impact on sovereign debt law, sovereign debt markets, and sovereign debt policy: Argentina's pending default triggered an intense fight in Washi