Global unemployment, slow economic growth, and severe debt issues confront G20 leaders as they gather in France this week to haggle over solutions to economic problems. The G20 is made up of 20 of the most important economies from around the world, and represent most of the globe’s population, trade, and output. This G20 summit […]
G20 Leaders Confront Debt, Unemployment & Slow Economic Growth
Posted October 31st, 2011 at 1:55 pm (UTC-5)
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G8 Reaffirms Economic and Political Support for Arab Spring
Posted September 20th, 2011 at 9:40 pm (UTC-5)
The world’s major industrialized nations are pledging economic and political support to five North African and Middle Eastern countries that are transitioning to democracy after revolting against their authoritarian leaders. Foreign ministers from the G8 met in New York Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. They were joined by ministers from […]
G20 Targets High Food Prices
Posted June 23rd, 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
Twenty of the world’s most important economies have agreed on measures aimed at controlling high and volatile food prices. Meeting together for the first time, agriculture ministers from the G20 group of leading and emerging nations committed thermselves to increasing regulation of commodity markets. They made plans to set up an emergency humanitarian food reserve […]
