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¡Viva México! In Praise of a Global Steering Committee blog Gordon Smith After G20 foreign ministers meet in Mexico, Gordon Smith praises the idea of international leadership through a global steering committee.	Lagarde and the IMF: The Unlikely Winners of the Cannes G20 Summit CIGI Commentaries Bessma Momani Under Lagarde the IMF appears to have secured a renewed faith in its ability to guide the global community out of the euro zone storm.
National Perspectives on Global Leadership During the Cannes G20 CIGI Papers Colin Bradford The 2011 NPGL series concludes that while the euro crisis dominated the Cannes summit, G20 leaders made progress on some key agenda items.	The G20 Returns to Crisis Committee — with Positive and Negative Implications CIGI Commentaries Andrew F. Cooper Though the euro-crisis dominated last week's G20 Summit, the crisis has helped the group regain some of its former intensity.
What Next for China in the G20? — Reorienting the Core Agenda CIGI Commentaries Gregory Chin If China increases its IMF contributions, we should not be surprised if they come with requests for changes in the G20's core agenda.	Series Introduction: New World, New Ideas? CIGI Commentaries Thomas A. Bernes The world is looking for the Cannes summit to provide realistic and meaningful steps towards solving the crisis and moving forward.

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G20 rejects contribution to European bailout

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Kevin Carmichael

In an interview with Kevin Carmichael of The Globe and Mail, CIGI Executive Director Thomas Bernes comments on the need for a more systemic approach to dealing with sovereign-debt. He says the European debt crisis shows that “lessons of the past have not been learned.”

National Perspectives on Global Leadership During the Cannes G20

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Colin Bradford

The Cannes G20 Summit was dominated by the 2011 euro crisis, but the summit did succeed in raising the profile of the G20 in some countries, and the national priorities of G20 leaders were reflected in their respective national media.

CIGI'11 Compilation: Expectations for the Mexican G20 Presidency

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Colin Bradford, Jennifer Clapp, Paul Martin, Changyong Rhee, Mark Malloch-Brown, Jacques Mistral, Ged Davis, and Mark Thirlwell

CIGI '11 attendees, including former Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, chief economist of the ADB Changyong Rhee, Chair of FTI Consulting Lord Malloch-Brown, and director of economic studies at Institut Francais des Relations Internationales Jacques Mistral, make predictions for the G20 agenda as Mexico assumes the G20 presidency from France.

Lagarde and the IMF: The Unlikely Winners of the Cannes G20 Summit

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Bessma Momani

Most world leaders left the recent G20 meetings in Cannes with little to show and with great disappointment at failing to come to any detailed resolution over many of the key systemic issues that were on the agenda. Yet, there appears to be one unintended winner of the Cannes summit: Christine Lagarde and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The managing director of the IMF and former French finance minister, who played a key role in organizing the G20 agenda under her former — and known to be prickly — boss President Nicolas Sarkozy, left the meetings with promises of additional funding, boosting of global confidence in IMF surveillance roles and endorsements from China and Brazil in the IMF as the credible monitor of Europe’s promises at reform.

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