World Bank head says stimulus alone won't fix economic crisis

The world economic crisis will be deeper and longer if government stimulus packages are too modest and states fail to take joint action to fix their banks, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Friday.

Warning that 2009 will be a "very dangerous year", he said state stimulus alone would give only a short-lived economic boost that would soon evaporate unless credit flowed again.

"The danger now is doing too little, too late," Zoellick told reporters in London as G20 finance ministers and central bankers gathered in southern England ahead of a leaders' summit next month. "Incrementalism will prolong and increase risk.

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