G20 Working Group
CIGI conducts an active program of research, policy analysis, conferences and workshops on G20 challenges and issues, cutting across several program themes including the Global Economy, Environment and Energy and Global Security. CIGI convened its first G20 Working Group in December 2009.
Featured Materials
National Perspectives on Global Leadership During the Los Cabos G20 SummitSpecial Reports  The seventh installment of the NPGL Soundings Series reveals that the media in 12 G20 capitals reflected a mixed but clear picture of outcomes from Los Cabos. | The Rise of the BRICS: Threat or Benefit?video  |
G20 as Global Focus Group: Beyond the crisis/steering committee frameworkvideo | The G20 Final Declaration - What to Look Forvideo |
The Long Winding Road to Banking Unionvideo | Steps on the Road to Globalizing the Regulation of Capitalblog  From the perspective of CIGI's Global Economy Program, the Los Cabos summit featured some interesting developments. |
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Barry Carin and David Shorr
The failure of many observers to recognize the varied scale of the G20’s efforts — from macroeconomic rebalancing to ratification of the main anticorruption treaty — has made it harder for the G20 to gain credit for the valuable role it can play.
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The seventh installment of the National Perspectives on Global Leadership (NPGL) Soundings Series reveals that the national media in 12 G20 capitals reflected a mixed but clear picture of outcomes from the Los Cabos G20 Summit. Most reported that the euro zone crisis did not overwhelm the summit, but portrayals of the summit in several countries suggested the opposite.
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CIGI Senior Fellow Colin Bradford explores the increase in IMF funding by emerging market economies, announced during the G20 Los Cabos Summit 2012, and if this funding is a good thing for other nations.
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CIGI Distinguished Fellow Andrew F. Cooper discusses the shifting role of the G20 as both a "crisis committee" and a "steering committee." Cooper notes that the legitimacy of the G20 has improved; however, achieving progress on deliverables remains a challenge.
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Did the G20 in Cabo San Lucas resolve the euro zone crisis? No. Doesn’t that just underscore what a waste of money these summits are? No. The world is far more complicated than that. With today’s non-stop news cycles, it is almost inevitable that expectations for summits are so high that they can never be met. In fact, substantial progress is being made in the G20 in a number of areas, most of which never is reported.
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CIGI and the Brookings Institution enlists colleagues from leading think tanks in a dozen G20 countries to observe how national publics perceive their leaders at global summits, as seen through the lens of leading media outlets in each of their capitals. Their findings are published online.
In advance of G20 summits, CIGI conducts an active outreach and consultation program with the summit host country and key G20 stakeholders. This includes private and public preparatory meetings with summit organizers, policy makers and representatives from leading international think tanks.
