One of the main achievements touted by the G20 at their recently held Summit in Pittsburgh was agreement on a “Framework for Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Growth” with the intention of leading to a correction, and preventing future recreation, of imbalances between countries with high current account surpluses and those with high current account deficits. This article argues that the G20’s attempt to do this without a substantial reform of the reserve and monetary system that has led to the current crisis will render the effort meaningless.

In this article, appeared in the March 2008 edition of Interaction's newsletter Monday Developments, Aldo Caliari writes about the importance and achievements of the Financing for Development Conference held in Monterrey (Mexico), 2002, and the prospects for the upcoming Doha Financing for Development Review Conference, to be held at the end of 2008 in Doha, Qatar.

This article reviews the work of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland every year.  The focus is the WEF in 2001.