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EXTRA: IMF's Strauss-Kahn says crisis could be over in a year
Istanbul - The International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Sunday that the world's economic crisis could be over within a year. Strauss-Kahn linked an end to the crisis with a drop in unemployment, which has continued ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

IMF gets monitoring role; will develop 'exit strategies' - 2nd Update
Istanbul - World finance ministers on Sunday tasked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with watching over their economies and developing principles for governments to begin withdrawing state support measures in place to weather the global economic...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

IMF mission begins reviewing Serbia's standby loan arrangement
Belgrade - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission on Thursday began reviewing Serbia's economic policies, with two tranches of a 4-billion-dollar standby loan hinging on its verdict. The IMF and Serbia agreed to the two-year loan in March. The ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

IMF gives Belarus 700 million dollars, praises Lukashenko
Minsk - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loaned Belarus 700 million dollars, with fund managers praising the planning skills of the country's authoritarian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belapan news agency reported Thursday. The IMF credit w...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

EXTRA: IMF to develop 'exit strategies' for state help by April
Istanbul - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was tasked Sunday with developing principles by next spring on how governments should begin withdrawing massive state support measures in place to weather the global economic crisis. But the IMF's stee...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

Finance ministers aim to bolster recovery, boost IMF role - Update
Istanbul - Finance ministers promised to keep up public spending measures until a stronger economic recovery takes hold and were poised on Sunday to endorse new monitoring powers for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But as the IMF's steering co...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF says Cambodia's economy will contract 2.75 per cent this year
Phnom Penh - The International Monetary Fund revised down its forecast for Cambodia's economy Wednesday, predicting that gross domestic product (GDP) would contract 2.75 per cent in 2009. That is sharply lower than its previous forecast of a 0.5-per-...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF recommends Iceland keep currency controls
Reykjavik - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended Iceland maintain currency controls for the time being in order to ensure a stable currency, according to a report released Tuesday. The Icelandic central bank published the 98-page rep...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

Police break up Istanbul protests with tear gas
Istanbul - Police have used tear gas and water cannon to break up protests Tuesday against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which are having their annual meetings in Istanbul. A crowd of several hundred had gathered in downtown Ist...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Middle East (World) ]

PREVIEW: Strengthened IMF meets to consider global economy's future
Istanbul - There has been at least one winner from the year's devastating financial crisis: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been given a new lease on life. As the IMF holds its annual meeting this week together with the World Bank in Istanb...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF and World Bank see major threats to global recovery - Summary
Istanbul - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank warned Friday of major pitfalls as the world economy begins to recover from its worst recession in seven decades. One day aft...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Job losses cast shadow on global recovery, says IMF's Strauss-Kahn
Istanbul - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Friday that rising unemployment in wealthy countries was casting a long shadow over the global recovery. Speaking before the IMF and World Bank's annual meetings i...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

World finance ministers look to safeguard recovery, boost IMF role
Istanbul - Finance ministers promised to keep up public spending measures until a stronger economic recovery takes hold and were poised on Sunday to endorse new monitoring powers for the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But as the IMF's steering co...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Asia leads recovery, but painful transition ahead
Istanbul - Asia may be leading the global economic recovery, but it could face a period of slower growth and rising unemployment in coming years as it transitions from exports to domestic demand, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sunday. Gov...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

World Bank-IMF meetings end with call for reform
Istanbul - The annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was formally concluded Wednesday in Istanbul with an appeal to nations to pursue reforms while dealing with the global economic crisis. In remarks wrapping up the confere...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF wants steps, not promises from Serbia, central bank head warns
Belgrade - International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts, due in Belgrade in October to review Serbia's compliance with terms of a standby loan, will want concrete measures instead of promises to unblock the 4-billion-dollar credit, central bank Govern...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

Ukraine demands quick IMF payment to prevent gas crisis
Brussels - The International Monetary Fund should speed up a 3.8-billion-dollar loan to Ukraine so that the former-Soviet state can buy natural gas and prevent a new crisis in Europe, Ukraine's deputy prime minister said Wednesday. We need a short-t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Ukraine to pay off latest Russia gas debt from IMF account
Kiev - Ukraine will pay off its most recent outstanding gas debt to Russia by drawing on a special use International Monetary Fund (IMF) account, government officials said Friday. I hope that by the end of today (Friday), we can inform you of a succ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF earns 6.7 billion dollars in sale of gold reserves to India
Washington - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sold 6.7-billion-dollars worth of gold to boost its own cash reserves, the crisis-lender said Monday, completing about half of a sale that was authorized in September. The IMF said it sold 200 me...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ US (Business) ]

IMF unfreezes standby loan after Serbia promises spending cuts
Belgrade - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will unfreeze funds from a 4-billion-dollar standby loan to Serbia, which in return must curb spending and reform its social care system, officials said Wednesday in Belgrade. The head of the IMF missi...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

EXTRA: Protester throws show at IMF chief
Istanbul - A protester threw a shoe at the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday and tried to storm the stage at a Turkish university. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was holding a townhall-style meeting at Bilgi Uni...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

Europe faces sluggish recovery in 2010, warns IMF
Istanbul - The worst may be over, but Europe will still face a sluggish recovery in coming years that is underlined by high unemployment, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. In its semi-annual World Economic Outlook, the IMF revised upward...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF: Emerging Asia leads the world back into growth
Istanbul - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sharply raised its growth forecast for China on Thursday as part of what it called a remarkable turnaround by emerging Asian nations that are driving a global economic recovery. China's economy will ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF sees global rebound, revises forecasts - 2nd Update
Istanbul - The world economy has pulled out of its worst recession since World War II and will stage a sluggish recovery in the coming year, the International Monetary Fund said in a revised economic forecast released Thursday. But the IMF warned the...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF sees global rebound, revises forecasts - Update
Istanbul - The world economy has pulled out of its worst recession since World War II and will stage a sluggish recovery in the coming year, the International Monetary Fund said in an economic forecast released Thursday. But the IMF warned the recove...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]



 
 

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