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Good morning. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the thirteenth IMF-Japan High-Level Tax Conference for Asian Countries. I would like to thank the Ministry of Finance for co-hosting this event and the government of Japan for their generous support. I am also grateful to my colleagues in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department and the Regional Office for ...
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China’s gold consumption in the first quarter of 2024 climbed by 5.94% from a year earlier on soaring safe-haven demand, the country’s Gold Association said on Friday. Bullion consumption in the world’s largest consumer totalled 308.905 metric tons in the first three months of the year. Purchase of gold bars and coins jumped by 26.77% in the January-March ...