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G20 'agrees timetable' for monitoring economic policy
Released on - Saturday,07 November , 2009 -17:54 55
The world's largest and top emerging economies agreed at a G20 meeting here Saturday a timetable on mutual monitoring of their economic policy, a European source told AFP.
"Yes, we have a timetable," the source said when asked whether G20 finance ministers had followed up an agreement made at a September summit in Pittsburgh with a roadmap for progress.
World leaders at September's Pittsburgh G20 summit agreed a new system to coordinate economic decision-making and encourage stable, long-term growth.
The new system is designed to ensure there is no repeat of last year's near-meltdown that notably saw the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers.
A formal announcement on the "framework for strong, sustainable, and balanced growth" was due in a communique to be issued on Saturday at the end of the G20 finance ministers' meeting being held in St Andrews, Scotland.