Progress was reported on the Baker debt plan.
Nearly all of the banks with loans to major debtor nations support a newly proposed U.S. solution to the world debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund reported. Canadian banks were the latest group to pledge support and brought to nearly 90% the number of banks that support the plan offered in October by Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III, an IMF spokesman said.
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