{"id":11636,"date":"2012-06-19T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-4-china-rounds-off-push-for-bigger-imf-war-chest\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:36:01","slug":"update-4-china-rounds-off-push-for-bigger-imf-war-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-china-rounds-off-push-for-bigger-imf-war-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-China rounds off push for bigger IMF war chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* China to contribute $43 billion to IMF crisis arsenal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* BRICS to boost funds to IMF, but want reforms<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Brazil, Russia, India each offer $10 billion<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Emerging countries to study currency swaps<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Lesley Wroughton and Paul Eckert<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LOS CABOS, Mexico, June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; China on Monday<br \/>\noffered $43 billion to the IMF&#8217;s crisis-fighting reserves,<br \/>\nrounding off a global push to nearly double the Fund&#8217;s war chest<br \/>\nto $456 billion to help protect countries from fallout from the<br \/>\neuro zone debt crisis.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s contribution was part of a pledge by Group of 20<br \/>\ncountries made in April to supply the International Monetary<br \/>\nFund with extra firepower.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These resources are being made available for crisis<br \/>\nprevention and resolution and to meet the potential financing<br \/>\nneeds of all IMF members,&#8221; said IMF Managing Director Christine<br \/>\nLagarde.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* China to contribute $43 billion to IMF crisis arsenal * BRICS to boost funds to IMF, but want reforms * Brazil, Russia, India each offer $10 billion * Emerging countries to study currency swaps By Lesley Wroughton and Paul Eckert LOS CABOS, Mexico, June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; China on Monday offered $43 billion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}