Tag archive for ‘G20’
How to Really Help Africa?
Despite the enlargement of the G8 to the G20, Europe remains its largest presence. In November France will host the G20 meeting, and so Europe will have the predominant influence on the agenda. While Africa is permanently on the agenda, the question is how we might best use that moment to do something for our [...]
Time to Put the Cards on the Table
On the 31st of January 2010, it is time to put the cards on the table. The ‘Copenhagen Accord’, a document that was presented during the last plenary session of COP 15 and which serves as a basis for the international negotiations until the next climate conference in Mexico at the end of 2010, requests [...]
Good Capitalism… and what would need to change for that
The ongoing financial crisis points unmistakably to the glaring weaknesses of the present economic system. An event that seemed relatively manageable in economic terms – the real estate bubble in the United States – has brought the globalised economy to the brink of a new depression, reawakening memories of the world economic crisis of 1929.
The [...]
Credit’s due where it’s due
After writing back in September (see here) at my disappointment that Labour had failed to support Adair Turner’s call for a Tobin tax, I was delighted to see Gordon Brown endorse the idea at this weekend’s G20 summit in St. Andrews.
The UK Prime Minister called for “a better economic and social contract between financial institutions [...]
Who will run the World?
The tectonic plates of the global economy are beginning to settle into a new alignment. At Pittsburgh it was announced that henceforth the G20 would replace the G8. At Istanbul, where I have just been, Stanley Fischer, currently Governor of the Central Bank of Israel and hugely influential, used the Annual Meetings of the IMF [...]
On the G20 Finance Ministers Meeting in London
I thought you might be interested in what I had to say on Al Jazeera International about the current G20 Finance Ministers Meeting taking place in London.
After the Crisis – Business as ususal?
More and more indicators seem to suggest that as the economic crisis becomes milder (at least for now), politics and economics are moving back to business as usual.
The banks are back to big profits and the bankers back to big bonuses. No more talk about the near collapse of only a few months ago. No [...]