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24 Feb 23
The world’s largest economies must focus on supporting the most vulnerable people and countries to ensure the world economy recovers properly from Covid-19, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has...
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16 Nov 22
Members of the G20 have called on all lenders to assist low and middle-income nations facing a deteriorating debt position.
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15 Nov 22
Protectionism and national self-interest must be avoided if the world economy is to emerge from the ongoing crises as strongly as possible, International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina...
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2 Aug 22
A group of Zambia’s major official creditors has announced its intention to restructure the country’s debts through a G20 initiative set up amid the disruption of Covid-19.
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21 Feb 22
G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have failed to reach an agreement on making changes to their debt restructuring framework that had been proposed by the International Monetary Fund...
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17 Feb 22
Tensions in Ukraine risk the fragile global economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, warned Indonesian president Joko Widodo at a meeting of G20 finance leaders.
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11 Feb 22
The International Monetary Fund wants G20 finance leaders to strengthen their debt restructuring framework to better help crisis-hit countries out of default.
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1 Nov 21
Leaders of the 20 largest economies have endorsed a global deal that will see large multinational companies taxed at least 15%.
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14 Oct 21
The G20 must “urgently” compel private sector lenders to commit to restructuring deals for the debts of crisis-hit countries, according to a debt campaigning organisation.
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6 Jul 21
The G7 did not show enough ambition on climate finance, posing problems for the upcoming COP26 meeting in Glasgow later this year, argues Andrew Leming, researcher at the think-tank Bright Blue.
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19 Apr 21
A small ‘wealth tax’ on stocks of giant companies could raise $180bn each year and address problems that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, a French economist has said.
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13 Nov 20
A framework to help highly indebted developing countries through the Covid-19 crisis has been agreed by G20 finance ministers, but campaigners have said it fails to create a permanent solution to the...
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16 Sep 20
Africa needs fiscal space to deal with the pandemic, and it needs help from its creditors to get it, according to Senegalese president Micky Sall. Author NJ Ayuk explains why this doesn’t go far...
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17 Apr 20
G20 countries have agreed a finance plan to help some of the poorest countries in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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7 Nov 19
The French and Chinese leaders have reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement on climate change, calling it “an irreversible process”.
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2 Jul 19
Trade tensions continue to hold back the global economy despite the resumption of talks between the United States and China.
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26 Jun 19
Economic leaders at this year’s G20 Summit must support investment in using nature to tackle issues such as climate change, say conservation finance experts Margaret Kuhlow and Andrew Deutz....
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23 Jan 19
Japan will use its G20 chairmanship to rebuild trust in the global trade system, its prime minister Shinzo Abe has said.
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4 Jan 19
The US and China are due to hold talks next week in an attempt to ease the ongoing trade war.
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4 Dec 18
The world’s most powerful economies have agreed to improve the global trading system as US president Donald Trump delays Chinese tariffs.
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30 Nov 18
G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
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27 Nov 18
The move to accrual accounting by the world’s most powerful economies could put “healthy” peer pressure on others to follow suit, the global accountancy body has said.
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23 Nov 18
The IMF's Christine Lagarde explores the benefits of the G20 Compact with Africa, which is an agreement to promote private investment to the continent. This is ahead of the G20 annual meeting in...
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2 Aug 18
Agriculture ministers from the world’s major economies made “a breakthrough” during last week’s talks in Argentina, the German agriculture minister has said.
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24 Jul 18
Public sector accountants are in the front line of the battle against corruption, a global accountancy body spearheading a new anti-graft initiative has told PF International.