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World Leaders Meet in London on Global Economic RecessionBy Sonja Pace London02 April 2009 British PM Gordon Brown (front center), speaks with Brazils President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during photo session at G20 Summit in London, 02 Apr 2009?Leaders of the G20, the worlds major economies are meeting in London to hammer out some agreement and coordinated effort to stem the global recession and find a way back to growth.? Some of the worlds most powerful leaders, along with their finance chiefs are meeting at Londons ExCel Center to try to forge common ground on tackling the worlds economic crisis. What they are hoping to do is to come up with a coordinated plan to ease the recession, get their economies back on track and put in place regulatory measures to try to prevent similar crises in future. Indications are there will be no agreement on more stimulus packages, general agreement on free trade and against protectionism, agreement on more money for the International Monetary Fund, and there is likely to be some agreement on greater regulation. Economist Gianluca Benigno of the London School of Economics says cracking down on tax havens should not be an immediate concern. If you want to find a scapegoat you can, but that is not the main issue on which you want to focus. If you want to focus on that for populist reasons, that is another matter, he said. There is a good deal of popular anger at bankers and traders who are widely seen as having taken too many risks with other peoples money and at the wealthy, who stand accused of using tax havens to shelter their money. So, cracking down on them is generally popular. But many economists say the bigger issues to worry about include bad bank debt and lack of liquidity.? The United States and Britain wanted to see other governments plow more funds into their economies as stimulus. But, strong opposition came from many countries, especially Germany and France in fear of increasing the debt burden. Most European n