Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Leaders of three eminent international institutions have underlined the critical role of smallholder farmers in achieving much-needed global food security and preventing food price volatility. The clarion call comes in run-up to the first-ever official meeting of agriculture ministers [...]
1,000 Economists Tell G20: ‘Time for a Robin Hood Tax’
April 13, 2011 By
For Immediate Release: April 13, 2011 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- CEPR economists Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker, John Schmitt and Mark Weisbrot along with a thousand economists from 53 countries have written to G20 finance ministers calling on them to introduce financial transactions taxes (FTT) to help people hit by the economic [...]
‘To The Hungry, God Is Bread’
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Finance Ministers and Central Bankers of the Group of 20 (G20) — the world’s top economic performers — who met on February 18-19 in Paris, took a low-keyed approach to a potential world food crisis that was the [...]
FINANCE: Ahead of G-20 Summit, Capital Controls Gain New Currency
November 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 5, 2010 (IPS) – South Korea’s closing of ranks with Asian countries that have recently embraced capital controls signifies that such measures will be up for discussion at next week’s summit of the world’s 20 major economies in Seoul. This move by South [...]
The G20 in Seoul – Summit or Abyss?
November 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4, 2010 (IPS) – On Nov. 11, the Group of 20 (G20), representing the interests of countries who collectively produce over 85 percent of global wealth, will gather in Seoul, South Korea for its fifth summit. The G20 giants, now including India, [...]
U.N. Faces Threat of Irrelevancy Amid Big Power Politics
September 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) – The 192-member General Assembly began its 65th session under a perceived new threat: that the United Nations is being overshadowed by a more powerful body, the G20. Judging by remarks on opening day, there seems to be a [...]
Global Governance Reform Needs More Than Lip Service
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Shada Islam* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BRUSSELS (IDN) – Two years ago at their meeting in Beijing, Asian and European leaders vowed joint action to rebuild the battered global economy. “We swim together, or we sink together,” European Commission President José Manuel Barroso told the ASEM summit. Can that [...]
Shaping the Post-Crisis Order without a Silver Bullet
July 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Gregory Chin* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – During the summer of 2010, it would be understandable if interested observers of global affairs are swept up in summit fever. The twin G8/G20 summits in Canada late June and the meeting of the G20 proper which is to commence [...]
G-20: Is state debt the great threat
July 11, 2010 By
TheREALNews Network Originally presented June 22, 2010 Dean Baker: Most G-20 leaders are pushing the same policies that led the world into the Great Depression More at The Real News
G-20 COMMITS ITSELF TO MORE “NEOLIBERALISM”
July 4, 2010 By
TheRealNews — July 03, 2010 Leo Panitch: Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites G-20 objective Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto.
