G20 Progress Review
In April 2010, G20 Finance Ministers held a meeting to discuss progress made by G20 Leaders towards global economic recovery. Ahead of this meeting, a report finds that the G20 is returning to 'business as usual' instead of agreeing a programme of innovative global responses to an ongoing economic crisis; a crisis that continues to have a devastating impact on people living in poverty around the world.
G20 progress review
Bond, together with the new economics foundation, Bretton Woods Project, Stop Climate Chaos and the TUC, has published a G20 progress review detailing how G20 leaders have delivered against the Put People First recommendations. This paper finds that key G20 commitments have not yet been implemented and many lessons are still be to learned from the last two years if the impact of the banking collapse is to leave a positive legacy of reform.
Download the G20 progress review (pdf)
Towards a democratic global leaders forum
The G20 progress review shows that the international community needs to continue to focus on sustainable and equitable policy, by going far further than has so far been contemplated. Throughout this review, several common principles underpin the needed reforms - be they about jobs, justice or climate. The poorest countries need to be included; the necessary overhaul of the global economy requires an inclusive international process, with a reformed UN playing a key role. And the institutions charged with delivering reform need to be transparent and accountable to all those impacted by their decisions.
Bond joined over 300 international civil society organisations calling for a truly democratic global forum to deal with global economic governance issues.
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