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Can China Tap the Brake on Growth? (Time.com)

November 12th, 2010

Time.com - China’s Challenge: Tapping the Brake on Growth

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Obama says G20 needs system for balanced growth (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

Reuters - President Barack Obama said the Group of 20 nations still had a lot of work to do on the world economy and had not yet achieved a framework…

Global banking rules aim to balance safety, growth (AP)

September 12th, 2010

The building of the Bank for International Settlements, BIS, in Basel, Switzerland is pictured on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. The world's top central bankers are meeting in Basel to work on new bank regulations, known as Basel III, aimed at reinforcing the financial stability of the global banking system. (AP Photo/ KEYSTONE/Georgios Kefalas)AP - Banks will have to significantly increase their capital reserves under rules endorsed Sunday by the world’s major central banks, which are trying to prevent another financial collapse without…

Pakistani PM: Floods slow growth, raise inflation (AP)

September 1st, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP ** A Pakistani boy helps his father rebuild their flood-damaged house in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. Floodwaters that have devastated Pakistan for five weeks headed to the Arabian Sea on Tuesday after swallowing two final towns, but the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Pakistan’s prime minister is predicting that economic growth will fall by 2.5 percentage points because of this summer’s devastating floods.


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In Iraq’s troubles, an exchange eyes growth (AP)

August 20th, 2010

In this photo taken on Sunday, July 25, 2010, Iraqi stock traders watch the sales screen at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad, Iraq, the stock market, a key economic engine in most major economies, remains another in a list of post-war Iraq's unrealized hopes. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - It’s not exactly Wall Street.


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Germany leades eurozone to stronger growth (AP)

August 13th, 2010

Shoppers are seen in front of Paris main department stores Wednesday Aug. 11, 2010. Second quarter data due to be released Friday Aug. 13 is widely expected to show an acceleration, thanks to strong export-led growth in Europe's economic engine Germany. Economic growth in the 16 countries that share the euro was just 0.2 percent in the first quarter, and analysts say the recovery can only really take root if consumers open their pocketbooks. Second quarter data due to be released Friday is widely expected to show an acceleration, thanks to strong export-led growth in Europe's economic engine Germany. Germany, is back in gear after a painful recession, as foreign customers snap up cars and industrial machinery and the country reaps the benefits of stimulus spending that helped keep the motor running at home during the downturn.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - The economy of the 16 countries that use the euro expanded by a better-than-expected 1 percent during the second quarter before as growth engine Germany expanded at its…

Trillion-dollar euro rescue won’t solve low growth (AP)

May 10th, 2010

A stock trader works at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on Monday, May 10, 2010. After the EU-Finance-Minister Meeting and their solutions to save the stability of the eurozone the DAX Index curve started friendly on Monday trading. The decision to purchase bonds - called for by economists for weeks - did much to calm markets jittery about the continent's debt crisis, twinned with a nearly US dlrs 1 trillion rescue loan program from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Stocks and the euro rose and spreads between riskier countries and benchmark Germany narrowed, signs markets were relieved that the debt crisis in Greece was not about to immediately engulf other European countries. (AP Photo/dapd/Mario Vedder)AP - A bold $1 trillion rescue by the European Union halted the slide of the euro on Monday and sent markets soaring worldwide in a gambit that may ultimately…

China expects 8 percent economic growth this year (AP)

March 4th, 2010

In this photo rteleased by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivers a government work report during the opening meeting of the Third Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Weibing)AP - China said Friday it will target economic growth of 8 percent this year, increase spending on social programs and direct more development money at ethnic areas.


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