G20

G20's Central Role? As a Lightning Rod

July 2010
Walden Bello

The G20 is going to be around for some time. But it will probably be as ineffective as the G8 in stabilizing global capitalism.

G20 makes molehills out of mountains

October 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky

Not knowing how to deal with it, the G20 leaders avoided discussing the crisis, which will come back to haunt us when a new wave of the crisis inevitably hits.

Form, not substance, hoped in G-20 Summit

September 2009
Walden Bello

Will the G20, as an illegitimate forum to address the global economic crisis, serve as the lightning rod for the rebirth of the anti-globalization movement?

London Econ Summit: Born of Good Intentions, But Ends in Disastrous Results

April 2009
John Cavanagh
Robin Broad
The governments of the largest economies in the world walked out of the summit with a plan that takes the global economy three big steps backwards.

U-20: Will the Global Economy Resurface?

March 2009
Walden Bello
The G20 summit is trying to resolve the crisis by recycling failed institutions that are part of the problem.