Influencing policy on international development

2010 Seoul G20 Summit

South Korea hosted the G20 Summit in Seoul on 11-12 November 2010.

Bond briefing paper on Seoul G20 Summit

Read the Bond briefing paper on the Seoul Summit here and the Bond letter to the Prime Minister is here

NGO reactions to Seoul G20

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G20 development policy commitments

As part of a broader set of policy commitments, each G20 country outlined their individual development policy. Country by country details here

Summit outcome documents

The official outcome documents of the Seoul G20 Summit:

  • The Seoul Summit Leaders' Declaration here

  • The Seoul Summit document (The Seoul Action Plan) here

  • The Seoul development consensus on shared growth here

  • Multi-year action plan on development here

  • G20 anti-corruption plan here

  • Country by Country policy commitments (see page 19 for UK) here

  • Statement from the G20 business summit to the G20 here

News

  • The G20 Summit has started with a working dinner. Details here

  • Read the Prime Minister's speech to the G20 business summit here

  • Joint G20 Declaration from Put People First Korea here

  • 20 CSO recommendations to the G20, published today in Seoul by GCAP Korea here

  • What would success at the Seoul G20 look like? The Sherpa Times asks some of the experts for their thoughts here

  • New Bretton Woods Project article: Less than meets the eye: IMF reform here

  • 10 November: read the Global Union G20 Summit Statement and press release 

  • 9 November: the official G20 media centre is now open. Download the official press kit here

  • Statement on FTT, signed by 183 civil society organisations in 42 countries, call for G20 action on FTT

  • Read CAFOD's G20 Briefing Paper, Thinking big, acting small at the G20, here

  • Read the CIDSE press release, G20 Seoul: no currency competition but collaboration for global economic stability here

  • 8 November: Civil society responds to the deportation by the Korean government of seven activists from the Philippines. Read more here

  • Seoul international peoples conference opening statement 

  • Oxfam's G20 report, The making of a Seoul Development Consensus, is here

  • The official website of the G20 Seoul Summit is here 

  • Read the communique from the Finance Ministers' meeting on 23 October here

UK NGO recommendations for the G20

  • Economic growth and jobs – G20 governments should employ stimulus measures and implement reforms to get millions of people back to work through ambitious job creation programmes.

  • A development agenda for the G20 – the UK should take leadership in encouraging the G20 to agree an ongoing pro-poor, gender sensitive development agenda, where growth is focused on reducing inequality. The UK should also do all it can to ensure that the G8 meet their existing aid commitments to make a progressive development agenda a reality.

  • Global governance and accountability – the G20 should open its doors to full representation from low-income countries and implement accountability mechanisms to ensure progress can be tracked. Leaders should also pursue a deeper reform package for IMF governance to shift more power to developing countries, remove single country vetos and implement a double majority voting system.

  • Curbing illicit financial flows, improving transparency of natural resource revenues and taxing the financial sector – the G20 should honour its commitments on reforming tax havens (by implementing country by country reporting, public registration of beneficial ownership and effective tax and judicial cooperation) and put a tax on the financial sector to make a significant contribution towards funding development and climate change back on the agenda at Seoul.

  • Sustainable growth – each G20 country needs to agree to develop a long term, low-carbon and climate-resilient roadmap, as well as agree green growth measures.

  • On Trade, the G20 must prioritise policy coherence for development and ensure that trade policies, particularly those of the WTO, do not prevent developing countries from shaping their own economies to achieve development goals.

Week of action

Korean civil society is organising a week of action from 6-12 November. Details on the latest events and press statements are here

Civil G20 Dialogue

Bond participated in the Civil G20 - a dialogue between anti-poverty activists and government negotiators for the G20.

Audio interviews with GCAP activists in Korea can be found at Choike.org