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Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:41 PM

Published 11/07/2009 by BBC


G20 summit tries to tackle rifts

A key meeting of G20 finance ministers has begun in Scotland, amid division on the future of stimulus spending and how to pay for climate change.

Ministers from the 20 leading economies are in St Andrews, Fife, to discuss entrenching global recovery and avoiding a repeat...

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G20 leaders vow to keep global stimulus a priority - [11/07/2009 - Irish Independent]
Rifts appear ahead of G20 meeting - [11/07/2009 - Trend News Agency]
G20 ministers meet ahead of climate summit - [11/07/2009 - RTE Online]
'One of the biggest risks we have is for people' - [11/07/2009 - Business Report]
G-20 officials to wrestle over economic imbalances - [11/07/2009 - Washington Post]
UK's Darling urges G20 progress on climate finance - [11/07/2009 - Reuters UK]
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...is more cautious. "We cannot yet be confident that [the] global recovery has sufficient momentum to be sustained and durable" Chancellor Alistair...
G20 summit tries to tackle rifts [BBC - 11/07/2009]
...said on Friday. "Once we're through this, we must co-ordinate our plans for the recovery, just as we have coordinated our response to this recession. 'As we draw up our plans, we must accept that the biggest risk to recovery would be to exit before the recovery is real,' he added. The chancellor, who is hosting the talks, will be joined by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at St Andrews, where protesters have been demonstrating."
G20 summit tries to tackle rifts [BBC - 11/07/2009]
...banking sector. "I would hope that a little bit more can be done, to actually cast in stone the fact that we want to stop excesses, stop abuses, and bonuses that are strictly risk incentives" France's Finance Minister...
G20 summit tries to tackle rifts [BBC - 11/07/2009]

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