THE government's economic policies must be repeated by other world leaders to combat the global crisis, Gordon Brown has warned.

The Prime Minister is among 20 world leaders who have descended on Washington DC for an emergency summit to discuss the world financial crisis.

Brown is hoping to persuade other nations to adopt the government's policy of cutting interest rates and lowering taxes to boost the floundering economy.

He is also calling for immediate global measures, including a greater role for the International Monetary Fund in helping struggling countries.

Before heading to Washington’s National Building Museum for the one-day G20 summit Brown told reporters that he was expecting the talks to be difficult.

He said: “Obviously it is important to make decisions today about what can be done."

“There are a lot of countries with their own interests and their own policy directions at the moment that will have to change some of the views that they have, but I believe we are making progress."

Mr Brown repeated some economists claims that the impact of Britain’s own measures, which will be due to be announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling in the Pre-Budget Report, could be doubled if a similar stimulus was injected into other countries around the world.

He also joined summit host George Bush in warning off any 'protectionist policies' being implemented because of the crisis.

During a break in negotiations on Saturday the president said: “One of the dangers during a crisis such as this is that people will start implementing protectionist policies.”

“I think there is general recognition that if protectionism starts to develop in any continent or in any country, the chances of the world economy recovering are diminished.”

"This crisis has not ended. There’s some progress being made but there’s still a lot more work to be done."

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