On April 2, 2009, the Group of 20 most advanced and developing countries will meet to discuss solutions to the global financial crisis, with hopes and expectations that the summit — with Obama — will be more proactive in restructuring international economic institutions and much sincerer in seeking global economic equality.
Yet, in fact, while most European countries and the United States prefer to rescue banks and financial institutions which cream off most governmental plans, people all around the world are more concerned with substantive issues that touch their daily life, like global poverty and economic injustice.
Will the G20 restructure world economy?
When will the voices of developing nations be as effective as the West's?
Are social movements, like Put People First Alliance, able to push the G20 leaders to seriously consider global economic justice?
How are the European countries' fiscal and economic proposals different from those of the United States'?
Politics in Depth zone hosted Professor Rodney Wilson on the G20 summit on Thursday April 2, 2009
Professor Rodney Wilson is the director of post-graduate studies at Durham University and a professor of Islamic economy at Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation. Rodney Wilson's book on Economics, Ethics and Religion: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Economic Thought, was published by Macmillan of London and by New York University Press in 1997.
On April 2, 2009, the Group of 20 most advanced and developing countries will meet to discuss solutions to the global financial crisis, with hopes and expectations that the summit — with Obama — will be more proactive in restructuring international economic institutions and much sincerer in seeking global economic equality.
