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Financial crisis has strained fiscal rules: IMF
AFP, Washington
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that rules to keep budget deficits in check can help improve member countries' finances that have been strained by the global economic crisis.
The Washington-based IMF said it was examining "the evolution" of fiscal rules using a new database spanning die whole fund membership and considering fiscal frameworks that could be adopted as countries emerge from the crisis.
It was part of the IMF's ongoing analytical research on economic strategies to be adopted after the crisis as requested by the Group of 20 emerging and developed nations.
An IMF report found that almost 80 countries had national or supranational fiscal rules in place in early 2009 aimed at improving fiscal performance and adopting more prudent fiscal policies.
"But the need to address the current global crisis has strained the rules in many cases." it said in the report.
It argued that "going forward and looking beyond the crisis, rules-based frameworks can be useful in anchoring expectations regarding fiscal sustainability, but they have to reflect country circumstances."
Indian annual growth
to reach 7.75pc
AFP, Neu- Delhi
Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee gave his most bullish outlook yet for the Indian economy on Wednesday, saying growth would be nearly 8.0 percent this fiscal year.
Despite a shrinking farm output, which has been hit by a poor monsoon, a strong rebound in industrial activity may help lift India's annual economic growth to around 7.75 in the 12monthstoMarch31,hesaid.
"It may be possible for overall growth in 2009-2010 to be around 7.75 percent if tilings go on as they are right now," Mukherjee said at a conference organised by an industry lobby group.
"It would be more appropriate to say growth for the whole (fiscal) year will be between 7.5 percent and 8.0 percent," he added.
The news sent Indian stock markets higher, with the Bombay stock exchange closing up 3.23 percent.
In the fiscal year that ended March 31, India's economic growth slowed to 6.7 percent from the average 9.0 percent growth of the previous four years as the global economic slowdown took its toll. Court upholds ruling against Microsoft in patent case
AFP, Washington
AUS court of appeals barred Microsoft on Tuesday from selling certain versions of its popular Word program and ordered it to pay 290 million dollars in a patent dispute with a Canadian company.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a jury verdict and lower court ruling in the patent case filed against the US software giant by Toronto-based i4i Inc nearly three years ago.
"This ruling is clear and convincing evidence that our case was just and right, and that Microsoft willfully infringed our patent," i4i founder Michel Vulpe said in a statement.
"This is what we've been looking for since March 2007," added i4i chairman Loudon Owen.
"We are vindicated and we re appreciative but we re not surprised because we believed from the outset that we had a great case and that the trial judge made the right decision," Owen told AFP.
Copyright piracy in China still 'unacceptably high1: US
AFP, Washington
Copyright piracy in China remains at "unacceptably high levels," causing "serious harm" to American businesses, the top US trade official said in an annual report to CongressTuesday.
US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in the mandatory report on China's compliance with its World Trade Organisation accession obligations that Beijing was not taking adequate steps to enforce intellectual property rightslaws.
He said enforcement of China's copyright protection "remains a significant challenge."
The report cited other "priority" trade issues such as industrial policies, trading rights and distribution services, agriculture and services, but indicated piracy is a key issue where China has made little progress.