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Finance Minister stresses Group of Twenty' support for official efforts to promote recovery of world economy 4 Jeddah
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 22 - 02 - 2015

Assaf drew attention to the worrying slowdown in world trade growth, yet reached the half of what it was before the global financial crisis, noting that trade is vital for growth and increase employment opportunities, but the potential of small and medium enterprises is underutilized, and that there several angles can be examined by the "business group" in the field of trade with its promotion at the international level.
On the global financial reforms agenda, the Minister of Finance emphasized that progress has been made in pushing of these reforms and that the focus has been on completing the remaining items on the agenda, noting that "Business Group" (B20) can make an important contribution to determining reforms required to be made and their impacts on banks of emerging markets.
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