In its agenda to reform global economic governance the developing world should look for ways to extract some value from the G20.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on G7
Displaying 41 - 59 of 59 articles
The IMF has lowered its forecasts for the US, UK and other advanced economies, even if post-Brexit negotiations go smoothly.
The BRICS bank is positioning itself to play a significant role in those areas in which the international financial institutions are seen to have failed.
As the tension in the East China Sea continues to mount, Japan’s militaristic conservatives are putting their country on an aggressive footing.
The G7’s limited membership of like-minded countries gives it significant power to bring about meaningful economic growth.
Sino-Japanese rivalry might well come to dominate this year’s G7 and G20.
The world needs an alliance of leading well-being economies, a WE7, to lead it in the 21st century. It would be the first step towards a global network committed to a sustainable future for the planet.
Advocates of climate action have been saying it for years - we need to wean ourselves off fossil fuels completely. And now, the leaders of the world’s richest countries have started saying the same.
Despite G7 climate pledge, the country isn’t embracing renewables.
The G7 is just the first in a series of international gatherings that will define climate policy for years to come.
G7 leaders have pledged to help end the world’s fossil fuel use by the end of the century. It’s a laudable aim, but decarbonisation can and should be done by the middle, not the end, of this century.
The Russian economy might be hurting, but the government’s social contract stands firm against a divided West.
What to make of the announcement that we’ll be off the hydrocarbons in time for the 22nd century? Dream on.
Much of the focus on Greece has been on how to deal with its debt. Yet the debt will not be tackled simply through cutting public spending.
The situation in is Ukraine deteriorating, but the G7 powers apparently have nothing to add.
Greece has undergone significant reforms in the last five years. A look at the effects on the country shows why Syriza’s rejection of further austerity is not unreasonable.
Imagine you’d organised a much-anticipated party but because of something you’d said or done nobody turned up? To dismiss the party in the first place would smack of sour grapes but this pretty much captures…
The latest data from the ONS show that the UK’s productivity gap with other G7 nations is at its widest since 1992. This bad news comes against the backdrop of increased optimism as the economy seems finally…
So what’s so special about this lot? Who decides which countries get to be in the gang? Can you get kicked out? How does it stack up against the G20? If spies were to listen in, would they hear anything…
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield
-
Head of Department, National Institute of Japanese Studies and School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
-
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
-
Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
-
Professsor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Professor, Accounting and Finance, City, University of London
-
Senior Lecturer in the Dept of History & the American and Canadian Studies Research Centre, University of Birmingham
-
Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
-
Professor of Economics, Lancaster University
-
Reader in International Development, SOAS, University of London
-
Professor of Geosystem Science, Director of Oxford Net Zero, University of Oxford
