G20 to support economy until recovery firms

SCOTLAND:.Group of 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers pledged on Saturday to prepare strategies to end emergency support for their economies, but to keep the aid flowing until recovery was assured.

The world's biggest economies, the European Union, the United States and Japan, are either expected to or already have emerged from recession in the third quarter.This has prompted a discussion on when to start cutting back on the trillions in public support pledged to cushion the worst economic downturn since World War Two Officials from the world's 20 biggest developed and emerging economies said at the end of talks in St. Andrews that while the economy has improved, recovery was still uneven and depended on policy support.

Reuters