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Egypt to take part in G20 summit in Shanghai
Egypt will actively participate in discussions and endeavours conducted in G20 summit
G20 economies back clampdown on tax avoidance
The group of G20 leading economies has endorsed an action plan to prevent tax dodging by international corporations. At their summit in Antalya, Turkey, policy makers also remained committed to stimulating growth. G20 leaders on Monday said they fully supported a plan by the group’s finance ministers aimed at ensuring that internationally operating companies paid …
China turmoil, Fed hikes weigh on G20 meeting
Recent market volatility in China will top the agenda as bank chiefs and finance ministers convene in Ankara, Turkey, to discuss how to soothe the global economy. They may also discuss the prospect of a Fed rate hike. Investors around the world have been on tenterhooks ever since a recent plunge in Chinese stocks trigged …
World finance chiefs fall short on growth plan
Voicing concern that the Ukraine crisis could hurt the world economy
G20 final document unlikely to address Ukraine crisis
Reuters – The world’s financial leaders are likely to discuss possible risks to Europe’s economy from the crisis in Ukraine, but there are no plans to mention it in the final document from their Washington meeting, two G20 officials said. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 developed and emerging economies will …
G20 vows to add $2tn to world economy to lift growth
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stressed at a press conference that the G20 had left the austerity debate behind and was fully focused on growth.
World’s rich threaten democracy, says Oxfam in pre-Davos report
The World Economic Forum, which organises the Davos talkfest, warned last week that the growing gulf between the rich and the poor represents the biggest global risk in 2014.
G20 seeks ‘urgent action’ from US on budget impasse
Meeting in Washington, the officials warned that there were still risks to global economic growth, and that many countries faced “unacceptably high unemployment.”
G20 warns global recovery ‘too weak’, shadowed by risks
They backed a “Saint Petersburg action plan” to boost growth and employment as host Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned that the “risks are still very, very large” for the fragile recovery.
G20 seeks to narrow differences on stimulating growth
The meeting in Moscow in an exhibition centre outside the Kremlin walls aims to set up the G20 heads of state summit in Saint Petersburg in September, which will be the culmination of Russia’s presidency of the group.
IFC launches Women’s Finance Hub
Online initiative helps women entrepreneurs gain access to financing
G20 alert to economic threat from rising oil prices
By Michael O’Boyle and Glenn Somerville / Reuters MEXICO CITY: The world’s leading economies said on Sunday they were “alert to the risks of higher oil prices” and discussed at length the impact that sanctions on Iran will have on crude supplies and global growth. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 said in …
Don’t blame it on Rio
By Michel Rocard PARIS: We are little more than a decade into the twenty-first century, but a terrible precedent has already been set: all of the major international negotiations and cooperative efforts initiated in this century thus far have ended in failure. With regard to the environment, the fight against global warming has come to a …