The International Monetary Fund last week released the second payment of a controversial The United States, which has the largest voting share on the IMF's executive board, was seen as attempting to delay the huge loan to pressure Sri Lanka to address human rights issues in the country.

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But its members hold most of the voting rights in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, four of the five permanent seats on the U.N.

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Still, release of the proxy-voting record is likely to alter some fund behavior, if for no other reason than many funds may not want to be tagged with the reputation that they don't agitate mightily for their investors.

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Those mutual-fund managers are pretty poor stewards, rarely voting against the actions of executives.

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