Horst Koehler of Germany, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) addresses the closing news conference of this year's IMF and World Bank meeting in Prague September 28, 2000. [ At an international financial meetings overshadowed by stones, sticks and Molotov cocktails, the World Bank and IMF declared repeatedly that business was normal and everything was working well. "These violent forces did not distract us from work, which was to find ways to make globalisation work for the benefit of all," IMF managing director Koehler told the closing news conference. ]