It was a dour bunch of oil refining executives at the Deutsche Bank refining summit in Boston earlier this month.
Some measures of the Euro debt crisis actually improved last week, even though many are still concerned that the recent central bank action and summit agreement may not be enough.
Two years into the round, as trade ministers gathered for a summit in Mexico, the World Bank was pushing another extravagant simulation.
Fresh from a series of meetings in Washington that included the G-20 and a summit with the IMF and World Bank, Mantega highlighted the virtues of the Brazilian economic model which has made it the seventh largest economy in the world.
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In Summit County, where Sill ran the local bank, the fiery John Brown, who tried to liberate slaves, grew up.
At the Camp David summit, the G8 also commissioned the World Bank to investigate ways to integrate reduction of short-lived climate pollutants into its activities and asked the Bank to convene experts to evaluate new approaches to financing projects to reduce methane.
Once they climbed the crazy mountain of Greek bureaucracy and reached the summit, they faced the quagmire of the bank, where the issue of how to confirm the credit card details of customers ended in the bank demanding that the entire website be in Greek only, including the names of the products.
In July, 2005, a month after arriving at the bank, Wolfowitz attended the annual G8 summit, which took place at the Gleneagles Hotel, the Scottish golf resort.
Finance ministers from the five countries have been directed to look into the idea of the development bank and report back at the next summit, Singh said.
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The Brics nations plan to announce the road map for setting up the bank at the group's annual summit in Durban between March 25 and March 27, the officials said.
In the background the European Commission, the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, the head of the eurozone countries, Jean-Claude Juncker, and the European Central Bank have been preparing proposals for the summit.
Among the key agreements from the 29 June summit were moves towards banking union with the European Central Bank (ECB) acting as a supervisor and allowing European bailout funds to buy bonds to try to reduce countries' borrowing costs.
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Currency pressures will be a big theme of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank this week and of November's G20 summit in Seoul.
In addition to a two-day summit of European leaders, investors also are focused on the European Central Bank's rate-setting meeting Thursday.
London plays host next week to the G20 summit, which will bring together heads of state, financial chiefs and central bank governors of the G20 nations.
The market recovery gained speed in the final days of June as a summit of Eurozone leaders in Brussels produced an agreement to relax conditions for emergency bank loans.
Pimentel of Brazil said he expects leaders to approve the creation of a development bank, agreement on technical issues might delay any signing at the Durban summit.
The World Bank hopes to bring such innovations to the notice of other governments during the summit, if it can.
Summits succeed only if they are thoroughly prepared: remember last May's euro-summit, which took 12 hours merely to choose the boss of the new European Central Bank.
Brazil, Russia, India and China (and newcomer South Africa) want to set up their own regional development bank, heads of state said in India on Wednesday at the annual BRICS Summit.
The World Bank offered the loan to Malawi at the recent health and finance ministers' Aids summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Perhaps it is a bank heist of sorts, in the frantic run up this week and next to the Brussels summit in on 8-9 December, where the 27 Eurozone leaders are expected to make some binding, if not bold, decisions.
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