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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will continue to help bolster the nascent global economic recovery and build a stronger post-crisis world economy through its policy advice and by advancing the objectives for reform of the four Istanbul decisions: the Fund’s mandate; its financing role; multilateral surveillance; and governance.
SAN JOSE, Calif.----The World Economic Forum, a leading international non-profit organization focused on entrepreneurship in the global public interest, announced today that Corventis, Inc. has been selected as a “Technology Pioneer 2010” for the company’s work in developing innovative wireless cardiovascular solutions.
Global stock markets were mostly lower Friday as investors tread carefully ahead of a U.S. jobs report that could help determine the durability of the U.S. economic recovery.
Geneva - The World Trade Organization (WTO) launched its first ministerial meeting in four years on Monday with WTO chief Pascal Lamy warning the conference that time was running out to conclude a new global trade deal. While trade negotiations are n...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union will delay signing free-trade and accession agreements with Ukraine because of growing skepticism about the former Soviet state’s commitment to economic and political restructuring.
Geneva - The troubled global trade round is hanging in the balance as ministers and officials of the 153-member World Trade Organization (WTO) gather in Geneva Wednesday for the final day of talks aimed reviewing the WTO's work. The WTO's 7th ministe...
Geneva - The World Trade Organization (WTO) launched its first ministerial meeting in four years on Monday aimed at reviewing the work of the 153-member group. While trade negotiations are not on the agenda of the three-day gathering in Geneva, the s...
Filipino activists wear colorful masks during a rally against the economic liberalization policies pushed by the World Trade Organization at the Mendiola bridge, Manila, Philippines, on Monday.
The International Monetary Fund expects to cut its 2010 growth forecast for the United Arab Emirates as economic activity slows due to the debt woes of state-owned Dubai World, a top IMF official said on Wednesday.
Apparently, one meltdown isn't enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet today in Geneva on the tenth anniversary of the "Battle in Seattle," the first mass protest against globalization.
New York - Massive and concerted measures from the world's major economies have contributed to a global economic recovery expected next year, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN said in a survey that world economic growth is expected to registe...
World Trade Organization member states called on Tuesday for an early deal on freeing up trade on environmental goods and services, ahead of a major climate change summit in Copenhagen.
European businesses, growing frustrated at slow progress in the World Trade Organization's Doha round, called on Sunday for the WTO to tackle the negotiation at next week's conference.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The International Monetary Fund is issuing its executive board's plans for the next six months, including shaking up its own governance system to give more clout to countries now underrepresented at the international development organization, an IMF spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Oct. 7 statement by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) regarding Canada’s challenge of the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Law (COOL) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) was disappointing to many cattle producers across the country, including myself.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The global economic downturn shouldn’t slow policy makers’ efforts to make companies and households pay for the damage caused by carbon emissions, International Monetary Fund staff members said in a report.
