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UN Hosts Conference on Economic Reform

June 24, 2009

Voice of America

Officials from 126 countries are meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a three-day conference on reforming the global financial system.

Some researchers, including Martin Knor, the head of the Geneva-based South Center, say developing nations are suffering but have been shut out from “exclusive clubs” of developed economic nations, such as the Group of Eight.

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