Leading world economies agreed to put the policies of seven nations under a microscope as part of a plan to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
Opposing views about how to reform the global monetary system were laid bare at a meeting of the top 20 economies on Thursday.
Nicolas Sarkozy will on Wednesday welcome Jacob Zuma to France as a key player in Paris’s plan to use its G20 presidency to reform world finance.
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/ 19 February 2011
China was holding out on Saturday against an agreement among the world’s major economies on ways to measure and correct global economic imbalances.
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/ 17 February 2011
G20 ministers aim to hammer out common criteria for measuring global economic imbalances at a gathering on Friday and Saturday.
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/ 21 December 2010
G20 commitment to tackle corruption is good news — if its proposals are implemented.
G20 leaders vowed on Friday to avoid currency manipulation and trade protectionism, but differences between China and the US prevented major progress.
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/ 12 November 2010
Local economists downbeat about the upcoming G20 meeting and expect developing countries to look to their own interests.
The world’s 20 biggest rich and emerging economies intensified a war of words hours before the start of the G20 summit on Thursday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged China to work closely with the G20 and introduce greater political freedoms.
Bad blood between the world’s 20 biggest rich and emerging nations has spilled over ahead of summit talks starting on Thursday.
Unscheduled talks seen as a bid to address US concerns.
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/ 23 October 2010
Group of 20 finance leaders struck a landmark deal on Saturday to boost developing countries’ power in the International Monetary Fund.
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/ 20 October 2010
G20 finance ministers will meet in South Korea this week to try to chart a new direction for the world’s economy after a devastating downturn.
Toronto police clashed with protesters for a second straight day on Sunday, in the downtown core near the just-finished G20 summit of world leaders.
The richest economies, saddled with huge debts after spending their way out of the crisis, papered over differences on how to clean up their finances.
World leaders aimed for a common target on Thursday of securing the economic recovery, but disagreed over how best to reach it.
As the Group of Eight (G8) Nations meet for the 2010 summit on Friday, it will be a significant moment in their history.
Leading policymakers expressed concern on Friday about the health of the world economy.
Disagreements over how quickly to reduce billowing budget deficits and restore balance to the global economy risk straining high-level G20 talks.
G20 leaders said they had secured a economic recovery but were wary of overconfidence as Greece’s crisis put the focus on worsening public finances.
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/ 26 September 2009
Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the G20 summit ended.
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/ 25 September 2009
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
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/ 24 September 2009
Leaders of the world’s biggest rich and developing countries meet on Thursday to seek ways to nurture the economic recovery.
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/ 23 September 2009
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday promised to put a ”notable” brake on the country’s rapidly rising carbon emissions.
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/ 21 September 2009
US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the financial crisis.
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/ 20 September 2009
United States President Barack Obama will show Pittsburgh to world leaders this week as a ”bold example” of a new green economy.
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/ 6 September 2009
SA must continue with the stimulus package it has adopted as a response to the financial crisis, Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan said on Sunday.
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/ 5 September 2009
G20 policymakers gathered in London are divided on how to ensure any recovery lasts and bankers don’t run riot with risk again.
The economic crisis will give way to a more enduring era of economic development in Africa, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Sprinklings of positive data suggested the first pieces of a recovery puzzle may be fitting together for the global economy.
The G20 meeting in London is not going to change the world. But it can and must make a contribution to restoring confidence in the global economy.