The G-20 is at a potential turning point as leaders prepare to gather in Seoul in November. The world will be watching to see whether the group continues to gather momentum as a global economic leadership forum or is beset by conflicting priorities and becomes yet another talking shop. The agenda is ambitious, including new items such as development and the need for a global financial safety net. We lay out the issues and what is at stake.
The leaders of the Group of 20 nations will gather in Seoul November 11 to 12 at a time when many skeptics are wondering whether the G-20 can live up to the expectations placed on it when it emerged from the recent financial crisis as the world's leading
When the G-20 gathers in November, continuing uncertainty about the prospects for global economic growth and worries about the risks posed by global financial imbalances are likely to dominate the talks. US economist Menzie D. Chinn argues that while ther
At the height of the recent financial crisis, the Group of 20 nations appeared to be leading the charge to reform the global financial sector to prevent a repeat of the meltdown that threatened the world economy.
More than a decade after the International Monetary Fund's controversial role in responding to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, many Asia countries remain understandably wary of publicly engaging the fund.
The Group of 20 nations burst onto the world stage at the beginning of the recent global financial crisis, when it became the chosen forum for articulating coordinated action to avert another Great Depression. Since then, however, doubts have arisen about
When the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, a curious thing happened. The world turned to the Group of 20 nations, not the elite Group of 8, to call for collective action to avert another Great Depression.
One thing is clear about past attempts to denuclearize North Korea: They have been an abysmal failure. They have not afforded Pyongyang the sense of security it needs to take real steps to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.
North Korea sees nuclear weapons as a vital tool to press the international community into supplying it with economic aid, to intimidate South Korea into treating it gently and to give it bargaining power with China.
Today, a contest is shaping up among China, the US and Japan for access to rare earth metals that are used in minute quantities to manufacture a vast array of products essential to a modern economy - including advanced military hardware.
In recent years, left-wing extremism in India has spread like a cancer, exploiting the grievances of the poor and leaving a trail of killings that dwarf the chronic unrest in Kashmir.
The USSR, Libya and now North Korea have all posed one of the thorniest of diplomatic and ethical questions: should democratic leaders be prepared, for the sake of the greater good, to meet and negotiate with despots and leaders for whom terror and tyrann
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