Over the last week I've been blogging about civil society strategies on the G20 and some of the key issues that the G20 is taking up.In this post I try to draw some conclusions about the way the G20...
I’m blogging on how civil society might strategically engage with the G20. Here are two areas in which the G20 could take a significant step forward towards ending poverty and ensuring economic...
Since the financial crisis of 2007-08, the G20 has emerged as the world’s major economic decision-making body, to a large extent replacing the G8 which only represents countries in Europe, North...
World leaders agreed today to support European efforts to integrate European banking sectors in a bid to support governments affected by the ongoing Eurozone crisis. Heads of state had earlier...
The G20 summit’s now wrapped up. In a summit otherwise dominated by the Eurozone crisis, our small team – together with our partners from ANEC, a Mexican farmer’s network – have been pushing our...
It’s time for another beach resort G20 summit – this time it’s Live from Los Cabos, Mexico. Only seven months ago, world leaders gathered in the beach resort town of Cannes, France. Now they’re back...
It feels like we’ve gone through about two weeks in the conference center here in Cannes, rather than two days. But we’ve made it through, with all the heads of government now making their closing...
Here in Cannes I’ve had a chance to look through the report, titled dryly “Supporting the development of effective tax systems”.It contains recommendations for the G20 from some of the leading global...
Last night the G20 announced that they had signed a convention against tax evasion that the OECD says could raise £62 billion. The convention, which is not new but rather an update of an existing...
Bill Gates’ evidence-based defense of foreign aid couldn’t come at a better time. This week, the United States Senate is debating huge cuts to foreign aid on the Senate floor – potentially cutting...
