Background Books
Russia's G20 Summit: St Petersburg 2013
Edited by John Kirton and Madeline Koch, with guest editor Marina Larionova
Published by Newsdesk Media Group and the G20 Research Group, 2013
For a downloadable electronic version, click here.
Introductions and leaders' perspectives
- An address on the occasion of the G20 leaders' summit in St Petersburg
- Vladimir Putin, president, Russian Federation
- The G20: a key forum to promote growth
- Enrique Peña Nieto, president, Mexico
- Turkey and the G20 St Petersburg Summit
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, Turkey
- South Africa and the G20: hopes for the St Petersburg Summit
- Jacob Zuma, president, South Africa
- G20: the challenge of effectiveness
- King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Saudi Arabia
- Improving global confidence and supporting the global recovery
- José Manuel Barroso, president, European Commission and Herman Van Rompuy, president, European Council
- Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth: the view from Kazakhstan
- Nursultan Nazarbayev, president, Kazakhstan
Special feature: From Los Cabos to St Petersburg: ensuring strong, sustainable, and balanced growth- Stephen Harper, prime minister, Canada
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Editor's introduction
- A summit of substantial success: prospects for St Petersburg 2013
- John Kirton, co-director, G20 Research Group, University of Toronto
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Spotlight on Russia
- Russia's perspective on G20 summitry
- Ksenia Yudaeva, Russian G20 sherpa, head of the Russian Presidential Experts Directorate
- The B20's contribution to G20 governance
- Alexander Shokhin, president, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; chair, B20 2013
- Civil 20's contribution to G20 governance
- Alena Peryshkina, director, AIDS Infoshare and co-chair, G8/G20 Russian NGOs Working Group
- Trade as a driver for the next wave of global economic growth
- Alexey Mordashov, chair, B20 Task Force on Trade as a Growth Driver
- The contribution of young entrepreneurship to employment
- Victor Sedov, chair, G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance 2013-14, and president, Center for Entrepreneurship, Russia; Jeremy Liddle, chief entrepreneur officer, Enterprise Network for Young Australians, and president, G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit, Australia; Igor Maksimtsev, professor, rector, St. Petersburg State University of Economics, and chair, Board of Trustees, Foundation "Institute for Applied Research in Facility Management"; and Archdeacon Andrey Kuraev, professor, Moscow Theological Academy, Moscow State University, and member, Board of Trustees, Foundation "Institute for Applied Research in Facility Management"
- Business and government: joining forces against corruption
- Andrei Bougrov, chair, B20 Taskforce on Transparency and Anti-corruption and Brook Horowitz, coordinator, B20 Taskforce on Transparency and Anti-corruption
- Strengthening energy infrastructure
- Victoria V Panova, professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
- St Petersburg welcomes the G20 and the world
- Georgy Poltavchenko, governor, St Petersburg
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Strong, sustainable and balanced growth
- Economic reform for good economic governance
- Angel Gurría, secretary general, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- America's economic prospects, challenges and opportunities
- Robert Fauver, former G7/G8 sherpa for the United States
- The European Union at the G20: challenged by growth
- Paola Subacchi, research director, international economics, Chatham House
- The evolution of Japan's economy: charting a new path
- Naoki Tanaka, president, Center for International Public Policy Studies
- The changing nature of China's economy
- Yu Yongding, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Breaking the link between bank and government debt
- Paolo Savona, emeritus professor of political economy and chair, Italian Deposit Guarantee Fund
- Monetary policy: contributions and challenges
- Yang Li, director, Centre for G20 Studies, Shanghai International Studies University
- The G20, the financial crisis and the rediscovery of 'macro'
- Andrew Baker, Queen's University Belfast
- Moving the Mutual Assessment Process forward
- Stephen Pickford, senior research fellow, international economics, Chatham House
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Jobs and employment
- Tackling the global jobs crisis and boosting recovery
- Guy Ryder, director general, International Labour Organization
- The economic benefits of education and human capital
- Harry Anthony Patrinos and Kaavya Ashok Krishna, World Bank Group
- Strengthening G20 social policy
- Caroline Bracht and Julia Kulik, senior researchers, G20 Research Group
Strengthening financial regulation
- Solving SIFIs, regulatory regimes and shadow banking
- Lida Preyma, director, Capital Markets Research, G20 Research Group
- Dealing with derivatives
- Chiara Oldani, lecturer in economics, University of Viterbo 'La Tuscia'
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Financing for investment
- Improving foreign direct investment regimes for growth
- Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general, UNCTAD
- Realising the potential of the multilateral development banks
- Johannes F Linn, non-resident senior fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
- Unlocking private financing for infrastructure
- Hans-Paul Bürkner, co-chair, B20 Task Force on Investments and Infrastructure
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Enhancing multilateral trade
- The contribution of customs to strengthening trade
- Kunio Mikuriya, secretary general, World Customs Organization
- Strengthening trade through tourism
- Taleb Rifai, secretary general, United Nations World Tourism Organization
- A call for international collaboration in the fight against cybercrime
- John Lyons, chief executive, International Cyber Security Protection Alliance
- Preferential trade agreements: using their proliferation as an opportunity
- Enrique Rueda-Sabater and Sergei Perapechka, B20 Task Force on Trade as a Growth Driver
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International financial architecture
- To end poverty, the world needs private-sector investment
- Jim Yong Kim, president, World Bank Group
- Reforming the International Monetary Fund
- Domenico Lombardi, director, Global Economy programme, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- Strengthening financial regulation: the Financial Stability Board's role
- Zhu Jiejin, professor, Shanghai International Studies University
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Development for all
- Asia's challenges and the G20: unlocking cooperation
- Takehiko Nakao, president, Asian Development Bank
- Africa can give the world the economic pulse it needs
- Donald Kaberuka, president, African Development Bank
- India and global development: understanding the dynamic
- Yoginder K Alagh, former minister of power, planning, science and technology, India, and chancellor, Central University of Gujarat
- Higher productivity: Latin America's biggest challenge
- Enrique García, President and CEO, CAF — development bank of Latin America
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Energy and environmental sustainability
- Global energy security: the opportunities and challenges
- Maria van der Hoeven, executive director, International Energy Agency
- The challenges of transition to a green economy
- Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary general and executive director, United Nations Environment Programme
- Building biodiversity: intergenerational challenges
- Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, executive secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity
- Mitigating emissions: the aviation industry responds
- Raymond Benjamin, secretary general, International Civil Aviation Organization
- Protecting the marine environment
- Koji Sekimizu, secretary general, International Maritime Organization
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Agriculture, food, nutrition and health
- Comprehensive rural development for food security — the role of the G20
- Kanayo F Nwanze, president, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- The hunger thread
- Ertharin Cousin, executive director,
United Nations World Food Programme
- Tackling tuberculosis and malaria
- Joy D Fitzgibbon, Global Health Diplomacy Program, University of Toronto
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Corruption and tax avoidance
- Transparency starts at the border: promoting proven security tools
- Ronald K Noble, secretary general, INTERPOL
- Forwarding tax fairness
- Dries Lesage, professor of globalisation and global governance, Ghent Institute for International Studies, Ghent University
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Governance
- Australia's vision for G20 summitry
- Mike Callaghan, director, G20 Studies Centre, Lowy Institute for International Policy
- G20: reaching out to the United Nations and the global community
- Russell Trood, professor of international relations, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University; president, United Nations Association of Australia
- Relating G20 governance to the G8
- Andrew F Cooper, professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, and director, Centre for Studies on Rapid Global Change, University of Waterloo
- The BRICS group as a crucial locomotive of G20 development
- Vadim B Lukov, BRICS sous-sherpa and coordinator for G20 affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Improving accountability in G20 governance
- Ella Kokotsis, G20 Research Group, University of Toronto
- Keeping promises: how big a difference has G20 summitry made?
- Ava-Dayna Sefa, G20 Research Group, University of Toronto
Leaders' profiles
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