Chancellor&#39;s plan for poor nations&#39; debt
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ANYONE who doubts Gordon Brown&#39;s ability to lead the nation should watch him in action at the International Monetary Fund. Here in Washington, where Brown chairs the IMF&#39;s main policymaking committee, Brown is the leader of the pack.
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The government has pledged to provide greater debt relief for some of the world&#39;s poorest countries. It was announced on Sunday that the UK will write off its share of World Bank and African Development Bank
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The chancellor is due to outline Britain's goals for helping poorer nations during the UK's G8 and EU presidencies.
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UK chancellor Gordon Brown says the G7 should offer poor countries 100% debt relief by the end of the year.
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The world's seven wealthiest nations said Saturday they were willing to take on up to 100 percent of the debt owed by some of the poorest countries. But they failed to agree on a British plan to boost international aid by &#36;50 billion a year.
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The Scottish Executive pledges a further Â£9m to help some of the world's poorest people, it is announced.
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Gordon Brown today warns that weak growth in Europe is putting the global economy in jeopardy. In an article in the Financial Times, in which he cautions that the world recovery remains fragile, the chancellor
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Tony Blair is being urged to use all his negotiating powers to end poor countries&#39; debt and double aid. Some 45m children will die needlessly before 2015 and aid budgets are half their 1960 levels, charity Oxfam says in a new report, Paying the Price.
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Gordon Brown has declared that the creation of a &quot;Marshall Plan for Africa&quot; is at the heart of the government&#39;s agenda for its presidency of the Group of Eight in 2005, seeking
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Britain will use its presidency of the G8 industrialised nations to push for a modern day Marshall Plan delivering full debt relief, trade benefits and financial assistance for highly impoverished countries, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said.
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Gordon Brown has not yet done enough to reduce the UK&#39;s budget deficit, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday, before demanding that he explain whether
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Gordon Brown  kick-starts a campaign to build national health systems in some of the world's poorest countries.
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The International Monetary Fund will  look into using its huge gold reserves to help finance debt  relief for the world's poorest countries on the urging of the  Group of Seven rich nations, ministers said on Saturday.
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The Chancellor has faced bad news on government tax revenues and borrowing so far this year - too little tax revenue, too much borrowing.
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The Bush administration is exploring proposals to significantly expand debt relief to some of the world&#39;s poorest countries, including forgiving all existing debt, Treasury Secretary John Snow said Thursday.
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The UK and other developed countries are meeting to plan ways to spend aid more effectively in poor countries.
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British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown appealed to IMF members to cancel up to 100 percent of the debt owed multilateral lending bodies by poor countries.