Meeting over quake countries&#39; debt
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CREDITOR countries in the Club of Paris, which includes Australia, are to discuss public debt owed by countries hit by the quake disaster in Asia at a meeting planned in Paris for January 12, a source for the creditors said today.
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WASHINGTON -- Countries large and small mobilized yesterday in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunamis that spread devastation across South and Southeast Asia, but international officials said the millions of dollars in short-term assistance pledged so far fall way short of the billions needed to address one of the worst natural disasters in memory.
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Governments around the world, as well as non-profit organizations, are pledging support for victims of Sunday&#39;s massive earthquake and resulting tsunamis that have affected more than a million
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Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster.
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Worried soaring oil prices could  hurt the best global prospects in years, finance chiefs from  wealthy nations met on Friday to try to work out what lay  behind the surge and how to buffer the economic expansion.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 2, 2004 - The world&#39;s major economic powers were far apart Saturday on agreeing how to provide debt relief for Iraq and the poorest nations, as finance officials began broader discussions about the global economy.
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Britain, which holds the presidency of the G8 bloc of leading industrialized nations, wants to reach agreement by mid-January on reducing the debt of the countries hit by the tsunami in Asia, the Financial ...
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Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the world&#39;s 20 biggest economies voiced concern on Saturday over sudden currency swings, venturing for the
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PARIS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The richer nations have made much of the freeze  they have offered on debt repayments from tsunami-hit countries,  but many of the affected countries do not seem to want this  concession.
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Debt campaigners attending this weekâs annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have expressed disappointment and outrage over the failure of the
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A day before Thursday's Jakarta meeting of leaders on tsunami aid, debate is flying over whether offering affected countries debt relief is effective.
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New York - About $500m has been pledged for victims of the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, including a $250m commitment from the World Bank, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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World leaders who met Thursday at an emergency tsunami summit pushed to give the United Nations the central coordinating role for humanitarian relief and agreed to work toward the development of a regional early warning system for future tsunamis.
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Italy called on Group of Eight rich nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt
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Tony Blair was being asked today to call an emergency meeting of the G-8 industrial nations to discuss their response to Asiaâs tsunami disaster.
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Finance leaders from the world's richest  nations pledged on Saturday to work together to stabilize world  financial markets shaken by the U.S. housing debacle that is  puncturing global economic growth.
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World leaders are meeting in Indonesia to coordinate relief after the Indian Ocean tsunami. How long will it take the affected countries to rebuild?