Stanley Foundation's List: The London G-20 Summit, April 2009

For more than a decade, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been urging an overhaul of the world's financial regulation and institutions in response to increasing globalization. The global economic crisis, which has hit Britain hard, has given him a

Leaders from the Group of 20 (G-20) countries are to meet in London on April 2 to discuss how to respond to the global economic crisis. The summit, which follows G-20 meetings in late 2008, has inspired heady expectations from policymakers and market watc

The London summit is a second act, after an emergency G20 get-together in Washington, DC, during the last months of the Bush presidency. That offered little besides vague reassurances—its most useful step was to include up-and-coming economies such as Chi

A confidential paper obtained by the Financial Times reveals how Britain’s G20 lobbying efforts ahead of next month’s summit have been targeted at “11 high-priority states” – an intriguing snapshot of how the Foreign Office sees the world. The paper may n

Only by working together can we meet the challenge -- and that is why this weekend's meeting of G-20 finance ministers in the United Kingdom matters. Together we represent more than 80% of the global economy. No problem should ever be too great or too dif

The London Summit takes place on April 2nd. While this will mark Barack Obama's first global summit as president of the United States, the meeting hasn't received much attention in the US - in sharp contrast to much of the rest of the world, which is high

At the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Washington in 2008, world leaders discussed how to strengthen financial markets and regulate regimes, to tackle the global financial crisis. This paper summarizes the final declaration from Washington and outlines th

The G20, as the name implies, is a lot more inclusive than the G8 group of rich nations. It gives a voice to countries with big populations like Brazil and India, which have been increasingly resentful at being excluded from a number of key world forums.