Growth in G20 countries accelerates: OECD

Growth in the Group of 20 emerging and advanced economies accelerated in the second quarter of this year to 0.9 percent from 0.6 percent in the previous three month period, the OECD said Thursday.

Pope warns global crisis risks creating lost generation

Pope Francis on Monday warned that the global crisis risked creating a lost generation of jobless youth and slammed a cultural tendency to socially reject the elderly.

BRICS summit set to endorse plans for joint reserves pool, bank

WASHINGTON/BRASILIA: Leaders from the world's major emerging economies are likely to endorse plans at a summit next week to create a joint foreign exchange reserves pool and an infrastructure bank for developing countries, senior emerging market officials said on Thursday.

French, Brazilian Finance Ministers To Discuss G-20 Next Week

By Nathalie Boschat

PARIS (Dow Jones)--French Finance Minister Francois Baroin will travel to Brazil next week to meet his counterpart Guido Mantega to discuss issues related to the next gathering of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging nations, a person familiar with the situation said.