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Live news: We covered the outbreaks of violence on the streets of Istanbul. Working with a freelance photographer (whose pictures appear here) we provided live copy of the unfolding events. We initiated our coverage after we saw that protestors were engaging police officers with direct action. We moved between the police lines and the masses of protestors in order the capture views and images from both sides. Clarity Economics has in the past been on hand in the wake of the 1996 bomb in South Quay, London, that broke the IRA’s 17-month ceasefire, and the Brixton riots of 1995.

Protesters clash with police in Istanbul
Emerging Markets - 6th October 2009
By Phil Thornton

Riot police fired tear gas canisters and water cannon at rock-throwing protesters today, as a march organised to protest against the IMF’s annual meetings in Turkey turned into a violent confrontation. Several hundred demonstrators clashed with police in the streets surrounding Taksim Square, just 200 metres from the Istanbul Congress Centre where the IMF meetings are being held. As rioters clashed with police wearing body armour in the centre of the Turkish capital, shoppers ran for cover and businesses shuttered up their businesses to escape the rocks and tear gas...

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We also have experience of carrying out face-to-face interviews with senior figures in economic, business and politics both live at the scene of an event or in a more formal setting. We have conducted interviews with Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Justin Lin, the Chief Economist of the World Bank, Erik Berglof, the Chief Economist of the European bank for Reconstruction and Development, Stanley Fischer, the Governor of the Bank of Israel and Jim Wolfensohn, then President of the World Bank.

Darling targets lax regimes
Emerging Markets - 2nd October 2009
By Phil Thornton

Lax financial regulatory regimes must be tightened – or sanctions could be imposed under a tough new framework overseen by the G20, UK Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned in an interview. Leaders of the world’s richest nations will use the IMF meetings to tell countries that fail to strengthen financial regulation that they could be “blacklisted”, Darling said. The initiative aims to mirror the success of the G20’s moves to crack down on tax havens...

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© Scott McGale, mail@scottmcgale.com

© Scott McGale, mail@scottmcgale.com

© Scott McGale, mail@scottmcgale.com

© Scott McGale, mail@scottmcgale.com

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