Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Mui Pong Goh IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint LONDON (IDN) – As G20 governments prepare to meet in Toronto this month, has this young group already passed its high point? In November 2008, when the international economy perched on the brink of collapse, the leaders of the twenty leading economies [...]
ECONOMY: ”G20 Meeting Should Address Plight of Poorest States”
May 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, May 31 (IPS) – The Group of 20 should show its concern about those that the global economic crisis ”is leaving behind” by putting the plight of least developed countries on the agenda at its meeting later this month. Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general of [...]
Why G20 Should Go the Whole Hog at June Summit
May 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – As the global financial crisis remains far from resolved and the world’s major currencies continue a roller coaster ride, a sound and safe global financial system appears to be sliding into the realm of utopia. But resignation will not remedy [...]
WORLD: ”Poor Countries Should Have a Seat at G20 Table”
May 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, May 13 (IPS) – The global economic crisis highlighted the necessity of transforming global economic governance. But least developed countries (LDCs) have little voice in this process. It is time they are allowed a seat at the meetings of the Group of 20 industrialised and [...]
POLITICS: G20 Big Powers Under Scrutiny by Smaller Nations
March 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 (IPS) – When the G20, representing some of world’s politically and economically powerful developing and industrial nations, suddenly gained a higher profile with the onset of the global financial crisis two years ago, there was apprehension the group would sooner or later try [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE: Divide Before You Add
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Sanjay Suri ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 6 (IPS) – You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up. The numbers being advertised by way of aid to the developing world to contain carbon emissions do not quite add up. What is more certain [...]
IRAN: New Nuke Charges Raise Stakes in Upcoming Talks
September 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) – Charges by U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain Friday that Iran is building a secret underground plant to enrich uranium appear certain to heighten tensions just days before critical talks between Tehran and its three accusers, as [...]
G20: Cementing a Southern Alliance
September 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Sanjay Suri JOHANNESBURG, Sep 19 (IPS) – Major developing countries are again preparing to stand together on critical issues at the G20 heads of government meeting in Pittsburgh Sep 24-25. But Southern solidarity may need to move beyond the strategic common front presented at such summits to include a [...]
FINANCE: World Bank, NGOs Exhort G20 Not to Forget the Poorest
September 16, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Sep 16 (IPS) – The World Bank and major non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are calling on leaders who will gather for next week’s Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh not to forget the needs of the world’s poorest countries, which have been severely [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Had the Last Word, But China Was the Winner at G20
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Jul 2 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama may have squeezed in the last word as the G20 summit wrapped up recently in Toronto, but it was China that came away looking like the summit’s winner. Indeed, the U.S. president kept up the pressure many [...]