Raghuram Rajan urges world to hike rates; but not in a 'big bang'

Last Updated: Friday, September 4, 2015, 19:43

Rajan also said that the concerns about market volatility should not come in way of the decision of the central banks.

G20 gets 'action plan' to fight tax avoidance

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 23:35

The OECD presented G20 nations with a bold strategy on Friday to crack down on tax avoidance by corporate giants and the super rich, and so boost overstretched national budgets.

G20 seeks to chart recovery course amid choppy markets

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 09:50

The world's economic crisis response team will grapple with the prospect of more market volatility on Friday as finance ministers and central bankers gather in Moscow to chart a course towards recovery.

Switzerland to take part in G20 meet of finance ministers

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 21:58

G-20 is a block of the world's 20 most important developed and developing nations including India and plays significant role in global tax treaties and other issues related to international financial system.

FM to attend G-20 meet in Mexico City

Last Updated: Saturday, November 3, 2012, 00:11

Finance Minister P Chidambaram will hold discussions with his counterparts from G-20 nations in Mexico City, amid developed as well as developing nations facing sluggish growth prospects.

IMF chief to attend G20 meet in Mexico

Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2012, 08:56

Mexico, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the group, will host the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 countries between Nov 4 and 5 in its capital Mexico City.

Eurozone crisis overshadows G20 finance ministers meeting

Last Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 19:03

Europe is constructing a permanent fund – European Stability Mechanism - of USD 668 billion.

G20 moves to line up huge rescue deal for April

Last Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 16:09

The world's leading economies worked on Sunday to line up a deal in April on a second global rescue package worth nearly USD 2 trillion to stop the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from spreading and putting at risk the tentative recovery.

G20 finance ministers, central bankers meet in Mexico

Last Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 00:32

The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank heads began here on Saturday against the backdrop of the euro-zone debt crisis, rising oil prices and slow down in the global economic growth.

IMF seeks more funds; G20 to discuss

Last Updated: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 10:29

The International Monetary Fund is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising USD 600 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the eurozone debt crisis, but the United States and other countries are throwing up roadblocks.

Create environment to bring back black money: PM

Last Updated: Saturday, November 5, 2011, 14:50

As his government faces criticism over the black money issue, PM Manmohan Singh says there is a need to create an environment at home where Indians who have stashed illegal money abroad have an "incentive" to bring back the funds.