National Perspectives on Global Leadership During the Los Cabos G20 Summit

Soundings Series No. 7: Los Cabos G20 Summit

July 27, 2012

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.  The Financial Stability Board report to the G20 on financial regulatory reform received virtually no attention and, despite Mexico's efforts, green growth was not the priority many hoped it would be. NPGL is a joint CIGI-Brookings Institution project led by Colin Bradford.

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About the Author

Colin Bradford is an international economist, who has been a government official in the US Senate, the US Treasury and USAID in the Carter and Clinton administrations, an international civil servant at the World Bank, the OECD and the OAS; and a professor of economics at Yale and American University, as well as an expert at the Brookings Institution, CIGI and the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin.