Geithner: Efforts to fix global financial flaws, avoid new crises will fail if US drops ball Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on ...
A UN summit on the plight of the planet's one billion hungry opens here Monday, with activists warning it risks being a waste ...
World leaders returned home on Saturday after backing a new vision for economic governance, with bold plans to fix global imbalances and give more clout to emerging giants such as China and India. They left the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh ...
Analysis: Exclusive club of global economic powers expands; can it deliver on big promises? The world's most exclusive club has expanded, pledging big things for the global economy. But it's likely to have just as much trouble delivering on those promises. Leaders ...
Steps taken by Group of 20 nations to avert another financial meltdown Key points of agreement by leaders of the Group of 20 on Friday: ECONOMIC GROWTH: Support economic activity until recovery is assured. Finance ministers will develop coordinated exit strategies from ...
Analysis: G-8 passes the baton to the G-20 with less than stellar results The world's most exclusive club has just gotten bigger, and it is promising a lot of big things for the global economy. But it is likely to have just ...
Japan defended the significance of the Group of Eight summit despite a shift to a wider grouping, insisting that Tokyo will stand by the eight-member elite forum. The White House announced that the Group of 20 -- which includes both rich and ...
Ascension of G-20 trades 20th-century alignment for the priorities of a new century For the world, apparently, eight is no longer enough. The G-8 group of powerhouse economies, which expanded from the original G-5 one by one over three decades, stepped off ...
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday welcomed a decision to elevate Group of 20 summits involving developing nations, saying the G8 club was "ill-equipped." The White House used a summit of 20 developed and developing nations in Pittsburgh to announce that ...
The Group of 20 developed and developing economies, poised to be the premier global economic forum, will hold summits next year in Canada and South Korea, a French official said Friday. Leaders of the G20 were meeting Thursday and Friday meeting in ...
G-8: Iran has 3 months to stop uranium enrichment, avoid new sanctions Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Thursday that the Group of Eight nations is giving Iran until the end of the year to commit to ending uranium enrichment and avoid ...
On eve of G-20, France seeks vast restructuring of world's finances and ecological incentives French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday condemned "the behavior of those who still continue to grow indecently rich, after leading the world to the brink of disaster," and ...
