Debt relief campaigners call for more budget transparency in 2015 talks

By Leslie Gevirtz

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Debt relief campaigners called on world financial leaders on Tuesday to find a global plan to improve budget transparency in developing nations and drastically reduce poverty while in talks this week ahead of a July summit.

Officials from the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and finance ministries are meeting in New York to try to reach an agreement on how to finance growth in the developing world ahead of a major summit to be held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia in July.

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