NEW DELHI : Indian authorities, starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, should pay more attention to women in the country, Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief, said at a media conference in Washington on Thursday.
This is the second time in four months that she has called out PM Modi on the condition of women in the country. At the World Economic Forum meet in January, Ms Lagarde said she had told PM Modi that he did not mention the women of India enough in his speech to the summit and "it’s not just a question of talking about them".
"I was hoping he would have said a bit more. Wish he had talked a bit about girls and Indian women," she had then told NDTV. That nudge was grounded in economics as well. She believes economies do better when its women do better.
