IMF, World Bank annual meetings kick off

ISTANBUL, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The 2009 annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) opened here Tuesday.

Among the issues to be discussed during the meetings are IMF and World Bank's global economic importance, global economic crisis, ways to overcome the crisis, restructuring of the global financial system and measures to be taken to overcome stagnation.