The billionaire philanthropist Soros says the money needed to help poor countries tackle climate change should come from the International Monetary Fund,or IMF.

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It is possible that the government will have to ask Parliament for more money for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) package to help euro-zone countries.

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Within the hour it was announced that Italy, having refused money from the International Monetary Fund, had accepted IMF "surveillance" of its public finances.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has repeatedly denied that any of the money it lent to Moscow in 1998 was misappropriated by the Russians.

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