Thursday, April 2, 2009

Canada will provide to the IMF ten billion U.S. dollars.

SyuzhetyAntikrizisnye loans MVF02.04.2009Meksika asked for help from MVFKanada added ten billion dollars to the International Monetary Fund assistance to countries with developing economies, AFP reported on 2 April, with reference to the statement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the day before the opening of the summit G20.
Earlier, the IMF called on members of the organization to further raise funds in order to work together to combat the economic crisis. The European Union has promised to allocate about $ 100 billion, the same amount in February, promised to pay to Japan. U.S. urged to triple the funds available to the IMF, but did not report the amount of its contribution. BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - also supported the idea of increasing the assets of the IMF.
After the beginning of the global economic crisis, a number of States to the brink of default, the IMF announced its readiness to help in difficult situations Countries. In November 2008, the IMF provided a loan of 16.5 billion dollars in Ukraine, 25.1 billion dollars - Hungary 7.6 billion dollars - 19 billion, and Pakistan - Turkey. Assistance from the IMF were also Latvia, Armenia, Iceland, Belarus and Serbia. In March 2009, the conditions for granting a loan of 20 billion euros had been agreed with Romania.
April 1, the head of the Central Bank of Mexico has asked the IMF to grant the country a credit for a record sum of 42 billion dollars.
Summit of leaders of the "Big twenty" begins April 2 in London. It will be entirely devoted to the coordination of collective action to save the world economy.

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