Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi is promising to use his big election victory to push through a series of reforms, and to develop plans to save Italy's struggling national airline.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in Beijing Sunday that China will stick to reform and opening up and step up efforts to improve the people's livelihood.

Gordon Brown welcomed fellow European leaders to Downing Street this evening to discuss global economic reform.

China endeavors to maintain steady and fairly fast economic growth and deepen the reform of the economic system, Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said in Davos, Switzerland Thursday.

A senior World Bank economist has praised Armenia's "strong" reform record and macroeconomic performance, noting that since 1991 the economy of Armenia has grown faster than that of any other CIS member state.