A family photo taken during the Finance ministers meeting, on 12 June 2009, in Lecce, Italy. On left, first row, EU Finance Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Naoyuki Shinohara, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Canadian Finance minister Jim Flaherty, UK Economy Minister Alistair Darling, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin; Second row, from Left: Unidentified, International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Governor of Italy Bank Mario Draghi, President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Youssef Boutros-Ghali. Finance ministers from the G8 leading world powers met for talks as populations hit by the worst economic crisis in decades wait for firm evidence of an upcoming recovery. Signs of an economic recovery have mounted in recent weeks but so have worries about the rising amount of debt incurred by governments to fight the crisis and their commitment to cut spending once growth restarts. Getty Images logo Getty Images 4 months ago

A family photo taken during the Finance ministers meeting, on 12 June 2009, in Lecce, Italy. On left, first row, EU Finance Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Naoyuki Shinohara, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Canadian Finance minister Jim Flaherty, UK Economy Minister Alistair Darling, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin; Second row, from Left: Unidentified, International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Governor of Italy Bank Mario Draghi, President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Youssef Boutros-Ghali. Finance ministers from the G8 leading world powers met for talks as populations hit by the worst economic crisis in decades wait for firm evidence of an upcoming recovery. Signs of an economic recovery have mounted in recent weeks but so have worries about the rising amount of debt incurred by governments to fight the crisis and their commitment to cut spending once growth restarts.

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