Background Books
The G20 Seoul Summit 2010:
Shared Growth Beyond Crisis
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2010
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Introduction and welcome
- The road to Seoul: shared growth beyond crisis
- Lee Myung-bak, president, Republic of Korea
[English] [Korean]
- From Canada to Korea: advancing global leadership through the G8 and G20
- Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
[English] [Français]
- Plans for France’s G20 Summit in 2011
- Nicolas Sarkozy, president, Republic of France
[English] [Français]
- The G20 as a lever for global development
- Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, president, Mexico
[English] [Espanol]
- The German and European contribution to global financial stability and growth
- Angela Merkel, chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
[English] [Deutsch]
- Prospects for the Seoul Summit
- John Kirton, co-director, G20 Research Group
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Asia
- APEC’s contribution to economic recovery
- Muhamad Noor, executive director, APEC Secretariat
[English]
- An ‘Asian’ approach to global development
- Lim Wonhyuk, director, policy research, Center for International Development, Korea Development Institute
[English]
- The G20 and green growth
- Han Seung-soo, former prime minister of Korea, chair, Global Green Growth Institute
[English]
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Macroeconomic policy and mutual assessment
- Overcoming the crisis in Europe and in the world
- Herman Van Rompuy, president, European Council
[English]
- G20 and the global economy: time to go structural
- Angel Gurría, secretary general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
[English]
- Tackling the jobs crisis
- Juan Somavia, director general, International Labour Organization
[English]
- Strengthening sustainable and balanced growth
- Robert Fauver, former US under secretary of state for economic affairs and former G7 sherpa
- The role of the Bank for International Settlements
- William R. White, former economic advisor, head of Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements
- Income inequality in China: a global concern
- Donald J.S. Brean, co-director, G20 Research Group
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Strengthening financial regulation and supervision
- The G20 and the future of financial regulation
- Christopher Kobrak, ESCP-Europe, Paris
- The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and regulatory reform
- Nout Wellink, president, Netherlands Bank, and chair, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
[English]
- Offshore tax havens: from challenge to contribution
- Dries Lesage, Ghent University
- Global accounting standards for all
- Sir David Tweedie, chair, International Accounting Standards Board
[English]
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Opening trade and investment
- Trade for growth, jobs and development
- Pascal Lamy, director general, World Trade Organization
[English]
- Making foreign direct investment work for all
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
[English]
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Reforming the international financial institutions and safety nets
- The contribution of the World Bank to global growth and stability
- Robert Zoellick, president, World Bank Group
[English]
- The role of the IFC
- Lars H. Thunell, executive vice president and CEO, IFC
[English]
- The role of the International Development Association in global development
- Johannes F. Linn, senior resident scholar, Emerging Markets Forum, and non-resident senior fellow, Brookings Institution
- Reform of the International Monetary Fund at the Seoul Summit
- Domenico Lombardi, president, Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, and non-resident senior fellow, Brookings Institution
- East Asian financial integration in a post-crisis world: prospects and challenges
- Surin Pitsuwan, secretary general, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
[English]
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Green growth, clean energy and climate change
- The global green growth opportunity
- Achim Steiner, United Nations under-secretary general and executive director, United Nations Environment Programme
[English]
- The clean energy contribution
- Nobuo Tanaka, executive director, International Energy Agency
[English]
- The green race is on: who will win and why?
- Björn Stigson, president, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
- Fossil fuel subsidies: the G20’s path to reform
- Franz Tattenbach, CEO and president, International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Clean energy for climate change control
- Victoria V. Panova, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO University, MFA Russia
- Carbon capture and sequestration and climate change control
- Keith Forward, editor, Carbon Capture Journal
- China’s approach to climate change control
- Xu Ting, School of International Relations, University of International Business and Economy
- Controlling climate change
- Stanley Fink, chair, Earth Capital Partners LLP, and CEO, International Standard Asset Management
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Global development and the Millennium Development Goals
- Development priorities for Africa
- H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor, former president, Republic of Ghana
[English]
- Leading the global recovery through development
- Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank
[English]
- The role of the Islamic Development Bank Group
- Ahmad Mohamed Ali, president, Islamic Development Bank Group
[English]
- Where next for the Millennium Development Goals?
- Mark Malloch Brown, chair, FTI Global Affairs, former administrator, United Nations Development Programme
- The role of the Asian Development Bank
- Haruhiko Kuroda, president, Asian Development Bank
[English]
- Financial inclusion through social business
- Muhammad Yunus, founder, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Laureate, 2006
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Food, agriculture and water
- The G20’s possible role in global food security
- Jacques Diouf, director general, Food and Agriculture Organization
- Securing food and agriculture worldwide
- Kanayo F. Nwanze, president, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Sink or swim?
- Ella Kokotsis, G20 Research Group
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Health and nutrition
- Reversing the chronic diseases tide
- Mirta Roses Periago, director, Pan American Health Organization
- The fight against malaria: what makes this time different?
- Farah Mohamed, president, The Belinda Stronach Foundation
- Making malaria history: how the G20 can help
- Jenilee Guebert, director of research, G20 Research Group and Global Health Diplomacy Program
- Maternal, newborn and child health: why the G20 needs to act now
- James Orbinski, co-director, and Jenilee Guebert, director of research, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Strengthening G20 governance
- Producing the Seoul Summit
- SaKong Il, chair, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, Republic of Korea
- The political-security context for the Seoul Summit
- Lee Dong-hwi, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
- The faces of China’s leadership
- Alan S. Alexandroff, director, Online Research, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and co-director, G20 Research Group
- The new dynamic of summitry
- Colin Bradford, non-resident senior fellow, Brookings Institution, and senior fellow, The Centre for International Governance Innovation
- G20 accountability: monitoring and delivering
- Jenilee Guebert, G20 Research Group, and Marina Larionova, State University Higher School of Economics
- Actors
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