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Flags of the G20 flying at the London Summit
Flags of the G20 flying at the London Summit

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ODI On... G20 Summit in Russia

5 - 6 September 2013
​On the 5-6 September leaders from the G20 countries will gather in St Petersburg, Russia. In advance of the summit ODI researchers will be exploring what we should expect from the latest meeting and how we might assess the capacity of the G20 as an effective global body.
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Over-shadowed by Syria, can the G20 generate solutions in a multi-polar world?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 September 2013
​The Russians had in mind a low-profile sort of G20 summit in St Petersburg this week – stressing continuity within a narrative of supporting sustainable and balanced global growth and culminating in an action plan building on the ‘3 over-arching priorities’ of the Russian Presidency – jobs and investment; regulation; and ‘trust and transparency’. It is not going to be quite like that.


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Dirk Willem te Velde

Coordinated monetary policy is a global public good, but will the G20 provide it?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 27 August 2013
​Monetary policy is one of a range of policies that require global coordination and, as September’s G20 summit in Petersburg is approaching fast, a new set of challenges is confronting the global economy. There are few alternatives to the G20 in providing such governance global public goods and even the G20 faces immense difficulties in doing this effectively.


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Dirk Willem te Velde

The future of development at the G20: towards the St Petersburg Development Principles

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 October 2012

When Mexico hands the G20 presidency to Russia on 1 December 2012, it will bequeath a G20 that is still doing some soul-searching on how to lead the world economy. Recent news suggests there is plenty to do. The global economy is in the doldrums, with growth forecasts for the BRICS and the Euro area dropping steeply. Climate change is increasingly visible, and increasingly costly. Food and energy prices are still high and volatile.

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Desks for the media covering the London Summit at the ExCel Centre. G20 summit London 2009
Desks for the media covering the London Summit at the ExCel Centre. G20 summit London 2009

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G20 and development: effectiveness & accountability

Event - Round-table - 21 September 2012 11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+00)

This round-table discussion examined the effectiveness and accountability of the G-20.

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Economic policies in G-20 and African countries during the global financial crisis: who's the apprentice, who's the master?

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 12 December 2011
Africa Development Review Volume 23, Issue 4
Dirk Willem te Velde
This paper explores economic policies in G-20 and African countries during the global financial crisis and argues that developed G-20 countries are currently not always regarded as the right master, and African countries may have outgrown apprentice status on some issues, so it may be inappropriate to think only in terms of lessons from G-20 countries for Africa.
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The G-20 and financial inclusion: perspectives and suggestions from developing countries of the Commonwealth and Francophonie

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 June 2011
Dirk Willem te Velde; Isabella Massa; Jane Kennan; Christian Kingombe
The Commonwealth and Francophonie represent more than 100 countries and 2.5 billion people. The association countries provide excellent examples of best practice from which many other developing countries and regions may be able to learn, so the two associations and the G20 are natural partners in promoting financial inclusion.
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Development at the G-20: a Commonwealth role in facilitating, implementing and monitoring, with a focus on Commonwealth small states

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 June 2011
Dirk Willem te Velde; Isabella Massa; Jane Kennan; Christian Kingombe
This paper aims to conceptualise the development agenda at the G-20 from a perspective which takes into account the vulnerabilities and resilience of Commonwealth small states, which have different development priorities from other types of developing countries.
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Dirk Willem te Velde

The G20 and development: How can it make a difference?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 October 2010
Last week’s ODI debate with Baroness Shriti Vadera and Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalash Sharma discussed the G-20 and development, ahead of the G-20 finance ministers meeting in Korea at the weekend. The communiqué of the G-20 finance ministers meeting has useful pointers for what we can expect from Seoul in terms of development outcomes, but we need to wait longer for specific development action plans.

This week at ODI the French alternate Sherpa Cyrille Pierre, DFID’s chief economist Prof L.

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Dirk Willem te Velde

The G-20 summit in Toronto: what does it mean for development?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 27 June 2010
Most developed G-20 countries are walking a tightrope, trying to balance actions to promote growth whilst ensuring fiscal sustainability. So most headlines about the G-20 Summit in Toronto were about the agreement on growth-friendly plans to reduce deficits, albeit at different speeds in different countries. There was also coverage of the slower than expected progress on financial regulation, and on the agreement to implement bank levies only if and when countries want them.
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The G-20 framework for strong, sustainable and balanced growth: What role for low-income, small and vulnerable countries?

Publication - Books or book chapters - 16 June 2010
Dirk Willem te Velde (editor), Issac Anthony, Ray Barrell, Debapriya Bhattacharya, Derek Brien, Massimiliano Cali, Nicola Cantore, Lius Jemio, Jane Kenan, Ali Mansoor, Isabella Massa, Shiela Page, Mustafiz Rahman, Pradumna Rana, Nikunj Soni, Hem Socheth

This paper contains over 20 briefings considering the role of low-income, small or vulnerable countries in the G-20 growth framework ahead of the Toronto and Seoul G-20 summits this year, 2010.

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The G-20 in 2010: cementing the BRICKs of development

Publication - Briefing papers - 19 May 2010
Dirk Willem te Velde

The G-20 has taken centre stage in global economic governance following its swift and decisive response to the financial crisis. But the G-20 needs to tackle unfinished business urgently; there is no clearly defined role for the private sector in the G-20 and there is no formalised way of considering the interests of the poorest countries.

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Economic Policies in G-20 and African Countries during the Global Financial Crisis: Who's the apprentice, who's the master?

Publication - Discussion papers - 6 December 2009
Dirk Willem te Velde

This paper, prepared for the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Conference on Rethinking African Economic Policies (6-8 December 2009, Nairobi, Kenya) finds that G-20 countries have responded through fast and large bailouts, historically large fiscal stimuli and accommodative monetary policies. It seems that African countries could learn from this, and in part they should indeed do so in terms of the flexibility and responsiveness of policies and institutions common in G-20 countries.

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The G-20 review of the international financial institutions: your views count

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 27 July 2009
The global financial and economic crisis is hitting low income countries (LICs) hard. LICs are facing several balance of payments shocks including reduced capital inflows, reduced exports, fewer remittances and pressures on aid. Development prospects of LICs are severely weakened. As a result, LICs are increasingly looking towards World Bank programmes to meet development goals and towards IMF programmes to play the counter-cyclical financing role.
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Simon Maxwell

G-20 -- a starting gun for recovery

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 April 2009
The G-20 Communiqué was published yesterday. Probably fewer than a dozen people in the world fully understand the numbers, but the words and numbers together secure gains for development and for the poor. The text provides a plan of attack, but also the standard by which leaders will be judged, particularly when the G-20 meets again later this year.

The text says that ‘prosperity is indivisible’ and that the recovery plan must safeguard the needs and jobs of hard-working families in all the countries of the world.

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Dirk Willem te Velde

G-20: macro-economics must include the poor

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 31 March 2009
With all eyes on London as world leaders meet, the, focus is firmly on the role of the G-20 in addressing the global financial crisis. But there are concerns as to whether the macro economic measures under discussion will take sufficient account of the needs of, and contribution by, the poorest. Poor countries need stable, open export markets, yet at least 17 of the G-20 countries have, according to Robert Zoellick of the World Bank, implemented protectionist elements in trade, migration and stimuli packages in recent months.
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A Development Charter for the G-20

Publication - Discussion papers - 19 March 2009
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ODI researchers, in coordination with other developed and developing country institutes, are tracking the spread of the recession, monitoring and modelling its impacts and applying their different skills to the policy challenge of restoring growth and development in the poorest economies in the world. The G-20 cannot deliver development, but its members can aim to promote development efforts rather than hinder them. The 12 short articles in this pack do not constitute an institutional position but, taken together, they outline a Development Charter for the G-20 to help poor countries tackle the effects of the global economic recession.

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​On the 5-6 September leaders from the G20 countries will gather in St Petersburg, Russia. The Russian Government has identified three priorities for it's presidency, all of which concern growth: growth through quality jobs and investment; growth through trust and transparency; and, growth through effective legislation.

How much does this G20 matter? Will the meeting make any progress on economic issues or wil it be dominated by foreign policy? In advance of the summit, ODI researchers will be exploring what we should expect from the latest meeting and how we might assess the capacity of the G20 as an effective global body.

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