Before the meeting  UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown  who is close to South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel  threatened to vote against De Rato's proposals unless there was a plan to boost representation for African states...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 47 No 18 | 
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	     Finance Minister Trevor Manuel will play a key role in negotiations over Africa's voting power at the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Singapore on 19-20 September...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 47 No 4 | 
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	     Then his ministers  in teams  present their end of term reports and new plans to the press and diplomats and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel presents the budget...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 24 | 
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	     Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SARB Governor Tito Mboweni have given warning that interest rates may rise soon...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    'No white smoke yet'  South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel joked with a crowd of journalists after five rounds of voting for the African Development Bank president on 18 May in Abuja...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 5 | 
            - AFRICA
 - BRITAIN
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	    The Africa Commission comprises 17 Commissioners: Prime Minister Tony Blair; Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown; International Development Minister Hilary Benn; South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel; Tanzania's President Benjamin Mkapa; Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi; Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund France's Michel Camdessus; Vice-Chairman of China's Foreign Affairs Committee Ji Peiding; Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa Kingsley Y...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 5 | 
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	    Finance Minister Trevor Manuel's budget offered a generous formula for fuelling growth and cutting taxes without letting inflation rip...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel  who chairs the Bank-Fund Development Committee  said that in 2005  five years after the UN's Millennium summit  rich countries should have at least agreed a plan on how to help poor ones to reach the MDGs...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Commissioners (including Ethiopian Premier Meles Zenawi  South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa) will discuss  as one Downing Street official put it  'Why Africa hasn't moved forward as fast as other parts of the world'...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 45 No 14 | 
            - SOUTH AFRICA
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     It was left to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to paper over the diplomatic cracks and serve on Blair's nebulous Africa Commission  alongside fellow luminary Nicholas Stern  of the World Bank...