In the run.up to the Group of 20 (G.20) Summit that was held in London on 2 April 2009, many institutions (including governments, development organizations, NGOs and academics) identified issues and made recommendations for consideration. In this article I examine a selection of these recommendations and I evaluate the extent to which the summit gave consideration to these. I then try to answer two questions. First, what are the implications for global development? Second, with the UN Conference on the financial crisis approaching, what should be done about the many issues and recommendations that the G. 20 could not, or would not, consider?
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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series Working Papers with number
WIDER Angle newsletter April 2009.