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The G20 Cannes Summit 2011: A New Way Forward
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2011
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Table of contents [PDF]
French Government Perspective [PDF]
- Le plan du gouvernement français pour le sommet de Cannes [Français]
The French government's plans for the Cannes Summit
[English]
- Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic advisor to the
president of the French Republic
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Introductions and Leaders' Perspectives [PDF]
- From Seoul to Cannes
[English]
- Lee Myung-bak, president, Korea
- The G20: maintaining the spirit of cooperation
[English] [Espanol]
- Felipe Calderón, president, Mexico
- Economic challenges call for concerted action
[English]
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, Turkey
- Towards the Cannes Summit: managing the G20 in times of hardship
[English]
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president, Indonesia
- Promoting growth, creating opportunity
[English]
- Barack Obama, president, United States of America
- Broad horizons, shared prosperity [English]
- Jacob Zuma, president, South Africa
- An open letter to the members of the European Council
[English]
- José Manuel Barroso, president, European Commission
- Herman Van Rompuy, president, European Council
- An open letter to French president Nicolas Sarkozy
[English]
- Julia Gillard, prime minister, Australia
- Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president, Indonesia
- Felipe Calderón, president, Mexico
- Lee Myung-bak, president, Korea
- David Cameron, prime minister, United Kingdom
- Three years of G20 summits: an assessment [English]
- Montek S Ahluwalia, deputy chair, Planning Commission of India, and sherpa for India for the G20 Summit
- Prospects for the G20 Cannes Summit [English]
- John Kirton, G20 Research Group
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Generating global economic growth and jobs [PDF]
- Regulatory reform is the route to market recovery
- Robert Fauver, former G7/G8 sherpa
- Towards growth and integration in East Asia
- Naoki Tanaka, Centre for International Public Policy Studies
- China comes to Cannes with an open mind
- Yu Yongding, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- What’s next?
- David Hale, chair, David Hale Global Economics; co-editor, What’s Next? Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy
- Connecting to people: tackling the massive global jobs deficit
- Juan Somavia, director general, International Labour Organization
- Young entrepreneurs should be a G20 priority as drivers of global growth [English]
- Vivian Prokop, founding chair, G20 Young Entrepreneur Alliance, and CEO, Canadian Youth Business Foundation
- Grégoire Sentillhes, president, Les Journées de l’entrepreneur, France
- Francisco Ruiz, president, Coparmex Young Entrepreneurs, Mexico
- The case for a coordinated macroeconomic solution
- William R White, former economic adviser and head of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements
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Financial regulation and supervision [PDF]
- Emerging economies require flexibility from global financial reforms
- Hyoung-Tae Kim, president, Korea Capital Market Institute
- Rebuilding confidence through global regulation
- Lida Preyma, director, Capital Markets Research, Global Finance; author, The Preyma Report on the G20 and the Global Capital Markets: Critical Issues and Analysis
- Steering a path towards international financial reporting standards
- Hans Hoogervorst, chair, International
Accounting Standards Board
- Combating corruption
- Angel Gurria, secretary general, Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Keeping the consensus on tax havens
- Amandine Scherrer, associate researcher,
Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology,
Université de Montréal, and OPIAS Consulting
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Controlling commodity markets [PDF]
- A consistent approach to commodity derivatives
- Greg Tanzer, secretary general, International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)
- Commodity-prices volatility: the reality behind the notion
[English]
- Arkady Dvorkovich, aide to the president of the
Russian Federation and G8 and G20 sherpa
- Injecting confidence into the derivatives markets
- Chiara Oldani, Department of Economics,
University of Viterbo 'La Tuscia'
- Commodities and the global economy
- Donald GM Coxe, strategy advisor, BMO Financial Group
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Trade, investment and infrastructure [PDF]
- Is the international investment policy regime up to the tasks ahead?
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- Rebalancing Asia requires a rethink
- Yoginder K Alagh, chair, Institute of Rural Management Anand, and former minister, power, planning and science and technology, India
- Project finance, risk management and economic development
- Julia Czarniak and Jelena Madunic,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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Development [PDF]
- The World Bank: playing a central role in development
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati, managing director, World Bank
- Looking to Latin America and the Caribbean
- Luis Alberto Moreno, president,
Inter-American Development Bank
- Progress, prospects and plans for Asia
- Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank
- African development: continuing progress
- Donald Kaberuka, president, African Development Bank
- Assisting in regional reform to maintain development gains
- Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president, Islamic Development Bank Group
- How social business can empower the poor
- Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- A world of seven billion
- Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
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- Non-communicable diseases: taking action
[English] [Portugues] [Espanol]
- Mirta Roses Periago, director,
Pan American Health Organization
- Investing in an equitable approach to maternal and child health
- David Morley and Meg French, UNICEF Canada
- The momentum of investment in health must be maintained
- Michel D Kazatchkine, executive director,
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Food, agriculture and commodities [PDF]
- Better information to improve food security
- Jacques Diouf, director general,
Food and Agriculture Organization
- Advancing agriculture for development
- Kanayo F Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- A global action plan for tackling hunger
- Josette Sheeran, executive director,
United Nations World Food Programme
- Mobilising business for food, nutrition and health security
- Laurette Dubé and Janet Beauvais, McGill World Platform on Health and Economic
- Agricultural technologies to feed future generations: reasons to revitalise
- Philip G Pardey, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota; Director, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) Center
- Investment in research is crucial in the quest to ensure food security
- Carlisle Ford Runge, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics and Law, University of Minnesota; and Carlisle Piehl Runge, Davenport College, Yale University
- Financing food security: a private-sector agenda [English]
- Lars H Thunell, executive vice-president and CEO, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- The essential component of social justice is adequate food for all
- Jay Naidoo, chair, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition [English]
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Controlling climate change [PDF]
- Climate challenges need a joint response at Rio+20
[English]
- Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary general and executive director, UN Environment Programme
- A low-carbon economy: the focus of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan
- Xu Ting, School of International Relations, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing
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- IEA and G20: cooperation across the spectrum of energy challenges
- Maria van der Hoeven, executive director, International Energy Agency
- The time has come for a G20 energy task force
- Dries Lesage, Ghent Institute for International Studies, Ghent University
- The role of electricity transmission systems in energy policy goals
- Daniel Dobbeni, CEO, Elia Group, and president, European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E)
- Konstantin Staschus, secretary general, ENTSO-E
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Internet governance, cyber-security and cloud computing [PDF]
- Positive change through better connections
- Hamadoun Touré, secretary general, International Telecommunication Union
- Questions of trust as we head into the 'cloud'
- Ronald Deibert, director, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
- Building international cooperation in cyberspace
- John Lyons, chief executive, International Cyber Security Protection Alliance
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International monetary system [PDF]
- Strengthening the system: the need to adjust the IMF
- Louis W Pauly, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Governance, University of Toronto, and director, research programs, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Governance [PDF]
- A laboratory to analyse a changing world order
- Karoline Postel-Vinay, senior research fellow, Sciences Po (Paris)
- Accountability in G20 governance
- Marina Larionova, International Organisations Research Institute, Higher School of Economics
- Ella Kokotsis, G20 Research Group
- A role for parliaments and civil society
- Olivier Giscard d’Estaing, Comité pour un parlement mondial
- The Astana consensus to meet today’s challenges
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Leader profiles [PDF]
- Leader profiles
- Sponsors index
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