British PM calls for fund to help poor

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Source: CCTV.com | 03-10-2009 09:44

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a special international fund to be established to help poorer countries through the recession.

Brown insists it's essential the developing world is not forgotten during the downturn. He says it should be regarded as central in efforts to restore global economic growth.

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers his speech at the Scottish Labour Party conference in Dundee,  Scotland, March 6, 2009. Setting out his priorities for  the G20 summit he will host in London next month, Brown  also said that international institutions should shore up the banking systems of poorer countries. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN)

Brown's ambitious "global new deal" will be presented to the London Summit of the G20 he will chair next month. His proposal includes a new fund to get cash flows to developing countries - either investment, aid funding, or money sent home by family members.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "I want new measures that will be directed to help the very poorest, helping to keep girls in school, helping to keep food on the table, to keep poverty from the door so that when growth returns these people are in a position to contribute to their economy in a way they want to do once more. It this global new deal begins at the London summit it must be one that continues to form the basis of our international help for years to come

Editor:Zhang Yun