Lagarde said all the right things on her recent campaign-trail tour of Asia. She acknowledged that countries such as China and India deserve increased IMF voting power commensurate with their growing economic clout, and a fair shot at the emergency lending institution’s top decision-making posts.
“Lagarde is a friend of India,” a senior Indian government source said. “We
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I do not suppose you know what your credit score means do you? Do you really? I think you might want to take another moment to think good and hard on that, because in September of 2004, the Consumer Federation of America reported that of one thousand Americans they surveyed, only one third understood that their score measured how likely they were to repay a loan. In this day and age more businesses are looking at credit scores of prospective employees as a means of assessing risk to the company. A good credit score is a must if you want to qualify for a mortgage, and a bad credit score can hold you back from even something as basic as getting a home phone line hooked up.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday that the EU was prepared to reduce the amount of money Greece has to come up with to co-fund projects under its regional funds to 15 percent, from the usual 50 percent.
The European Commission, which manages the funds, and other EU member states will also set up a program of technical assistance to make sure debt-laden Greece uses the money to stimulate economic growth and create new jobs.
The EU funds are designed to help underdeveloped regions catch up with richer parts of the 27-nation bloc.