All Entries Tagged With: "Global Financial Crisis"
Central Bankers To Mull Crisis Lessons At Retreat
Two years after the start of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy-makers from around the world gather this week to think about how to prevent it from happening again.
The Kansas City Federal Reserve’s yearly conference at a mountain retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will draw central bankers and [...]
Financial Crisis No Excuse For Inaction On Climate Change: EU
AARE, Sweden (AFP) – The global financial crisis is not a sufficient reason for inaction on tackling climate change, Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said on Friday.
His comments came at a meeting of European environment and energy ministers organised by the Swedish EU presidency in Aare, central Sweden.
The Swedish environment minister told delegates that [...]
Russia to Contribute to IMF by Buying $10 Billion in Bonds
Russia plans to buy $10 billion of International Monetary Fund bonds to help fellow member states weather the global financial crisis, a decade after the country defaulted on its own ruble debt.
The government “will soon allocate” the money from its foreign reserves, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said at a meeting late Tuesday with President Dmitry [...]




























