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Growth, Innovation, Inclusion: The G20 at Ten

Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2008

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Contents

Forewords

• Welcome
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil
  
• Brazil takes the chair
  Guido Mantega, minister of finance, Brazil
  
• The G20 takes centre stage
  John Kirton, director, G20 Research Group
  
• Planning for the future
  John Kirton, director, G20 Research Group
  
• Brazil and the G20: leading the way
  Denise Gregory, executive director, and Mariana Luz, academic co-ordinator, Brazilian Centre for International
  Relations (CEBRI)

From Founding to Future

• Time for the G20 to take the mantle from the G8
  The Right Honourable Paul Martin, former prime minister of Canada
  
• The birth of the G20
  Lawrence Summers, former US Treasury secretary
• Fundamental principles for global financial governance
  Christian Sautter, former finance minister, Republic of France
  
• From Bretton Woods to the G20
  Giuliano Amato, former finance minister and former prime minister of Italy
  
• Ten years on
  Andrew F Cooper, associate director, Centre for International Governance Innovation
  

On the Agenda

• The OECD: an active player in building global governance
  Angel Gurría, secretary general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  
• A co-ordinated effort to resuscitate growth
  Robert Fauver, former US under secretary of state for economic affairs and former G7 sherpa
  
• The Japanese crisis: a valuable lesson
  Toshiro Mutoh, former deputy governor, Bank of Japan
  
• Limiting the economic fallout
  Paola Subacchi, research director, Chatham House
  
• Reducing risk through policy co-ordination
  Richard Waugh, co-chair, Committee on Market Best Practices, Institute of International Finance
  
• A process of stabilisation
• Chiara Oldani, University of Viterbo ‘La Tuscia’
  
• A collaborative approach to global energy issues
  Nobuo Tanaka, executive director, International Energy Agency
  
• The price of climate change
  Alicia Bárcena, executive secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• Clean energy: prevarication is not an option
  Camilla Toulmin, director, International Institute for Environment and Development
  
• Biofuels: what path forward?
  C Ford Runge, distinguished McKnight University professor of applied economics and law, University of Minnesota
  
• Meeting the challenge of social inclusion
  Diéry Seck, director, African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
  
• The Doha Round: food crisis on the agenda
  Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  
• Time to modernise the global financial institutions
  Colin I Bradford, Jr, senior fellow, Global Economy and Development, and Johannes F Linn, executive director, Wolfensohn Center for Development, Brookings Institution
  
• World trade: down, but not out
  Sheila Page, senior research associate, Overseas Development Institute
  
• Averting the next water crisis
  Lars H Thunell, executive vice-president and CEO, International Finance Corporation
  
• Project financing, PPPs and the credit crunch
  Geoff Haley, chair, International Project Finance Association

Players, positions, approaches

• The role of the G20
  Stormy Mildner, senior researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
  
• Russia: a major player
  Victoria V Panova, Moscow State Institute of International Relations
  
• Enhancing the G20’s efficiency
  Xaiojin Chen, International Technology and Economy Institute, China
  
• India in the global economy
  Yoginder K Alagh, chancellor, Central University of Nagaland, and former minister, Power, Planning and Science and Technology of India
  
• How effective is the G20?
  Ariel Buira, member, Mexican Council for International Affairs
  
• South America and the G20: fostering growth
  José Maria Fanelli, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad, Buenos Aires
  

Member profiles

Appendices

• Bibliography and websites

Additional Features

• Meeting the Needs of the Times to Play a Constructive Role: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the G20
  Dai Xianglong, former governor, People's Bank of China [in English] [in Chinese]

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