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/ 20 October 2010
G20 finance ministers will meet in South Korea this week to try to chart a new direction for the world’s economy after a devastating downturn.
Toronto police clashed with protesters for a second straight day on Sunday, in the downtown core near the just-finished G20 summit of world leaders.
The richest economies, saddled with huge debts after spending their way out of the crisis, papered over differences on how to clean up their finances.
World leaders aimed for a common target on Thursday of securing the economic recovery, but disagreed over how best to reach it.
As the Group of Eight (G8) Nations meet for the 2010 summit on Friday, it will be a significant moment in their history.
Leading policymakers expressed concern on Friday about the health of the world economy.
Disagreements over how quickly to reduce billowing budget deficits and restore balance to the global economy risk straining high-level G20 talks.
G20 leaders said they had secured a economic recovery but were wary of overconfidence as Greece’s crisis put the focus on worsening public finances.
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/ 26 September 2009
Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the G20 summit ended.
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/ 25 September 2009
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
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/ 24 September 2009
Leaders of the world’s biggest rich and developing countries meet on Thursday to seek ways to nurture the economic recovery.
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/ 23 September 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised to put a ”notable” brake on the country’s rapidly rising carbon emissions.
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/ 21 September 2009
US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the financial crisis.
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/ 20 September 2009
United States President Barack Obama will show Pittsburgh to world leaders this week as a ”bold example” of a new green economy.
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/ 6 September 2009
SA must continue with the stimulus package it has adopted as a response to the financial crisis, Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan said on Sunday.
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/ 5 September 2009
G20 policymakers gathered in London are divided on how to ensure any recovery lasts and bankers don’t run riot with risk again.
The economic crisis will give way to a more enduring era of economic development in Africa, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Sprinklings of positive data suggested the first pieces of a recovery puzzle may be fitting together for the global economy.
The G20 meeting in London is not going to change the world. But it can and must make a contribution to restoring confidence in the global economy.
Seventy-six years ago, hopes were high that an international meeting held at the Geological Museum in London would provide a boost for the economy.
G20 leaders hope support for banks, higher spending and more money for the IMF will lift the world economy out of recession by the end of 2010.
Europe is comfortable with China’s role but believes the G20 summit will be too early to decide on Beijing’s calls for more say in financial bodies.
G20 finance ministers’ agreement to give more money to multilateral development banks will play a strong role in dealing with the global recession.
G20 finance ministers promised money to rescue troubled emerging market economies and said they would use monetary firepower to combat the downturn.
China and Japan said they were ready on Friday to boost spending to fight the downturn as a rift widened over the global response to the crisis.
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/ 16 January 2009
The global economic crisis is stifling investment into Africa and will put heavy strain on the region, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday.
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/ 17 November 2008
Markets appeared unimpressed Monday with an action plan from international leaders to tackle the global financial crisis.
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/ 16 November 2008
World leaders pledged rapid action on Saturday to rescue a weakening global economy from the worst financial crisis in over 70 years
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/ 14 November 2008
Leaders at an economic summit in the US are considering a "college of supervisors" to oversee big financial institutions, it was reported.
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/ 8 November 2008
Looking to take the first steps toward revamping a global financial system ravaged by crisis, leaders gather on Saturday seeking common ground.
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/ 1 September 2008
Officials from the G20 group of nations wrapped up a weekend meeting on Sunday that examined the effects of slowing world economic growth.
A grouping of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters on Sunday backed United Nations-led efforts to forge a global pact to fight climate change but disagreed on a sectoral approach to curb emissions from industry. G20 nations held three days of talks near Tokyo to discuss ways to tackle rapidly rising emissions.