How It's Used

“Mr. Greenspan will arrive at week’s end to meet outside Beijing with finance ministers and central bankers from what’s known as the Group of 20, a mix of old-rich and the becoming-rich nations that has been gathering since 1999.”

—David Wessel, “A Foreign Exchange Over Currency,” The Wall Street Journal, October 8-9, 2005, p. A2.

“Despite his immense popularity around the world, Mr. Obama will confront resentment over American-style capitalism and resistance to his economic prescriptions when he lands in London on Tuesday for the Group of 20 summit meeting of industrial and emerging market nations plus the European Union.”

—Helene Cooper, “Obama Will Face a Defiant World on Foreign Visit,” The New York Times, March 28, 2009.

“While many have been eager to describe the G20 meeting and, to a lesser extent, the standoff with pirates off the Somali coast as Obama's first test on the world stage, the WP's David Ignatius says the administration's first real diplomatic test came last month in Pakistan. That was when opposition leader Nawaz Sharif joined a 'long march' to demand that the government restore the country's deposed chief justice.”

—Daniel Politi, “Taking on the Drug Cartels,” Slate, April 16, 2009.

“Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the Party of European Socialists and a former Danish prime minister, accused Mr Barroso of failing to live up to personal commitments given last year, and of falling short of the demands of this month’s G20 summit in London.”

—Nikki Tait, “EU Draft Rules for Hedge Funds Attacked,” The Financial Times, April 20, 2009.

“But is this array of BRIC concerns -- and the complementary desire for a stronger voice in institutions such as the G-20, IMF, World Bank, and World Trade Organization -- matched by a meaningful vision for the future? It's doubtful.”

—Andrew S. Weiss, “BRIC-à-Brac,” Foreign Policy, June, 2009.

Also Known As (AKA)

The Group of 20, G20

Links

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G-3
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Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the G-20 Major Economies
"G-20" official Web site.