Watch a selection of videos where external experts give their views on the London Summit

Edwin Truman, Senior Fellow Peterson Institute

Ted Truman is a former assistant secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs and divisional director at the Federal Reserve. Now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, he says G20 leaders meeting in London on April 2 must complete the ‘unfinished business’ of IMF reform. 

Nancy Birdsall, Centre for Global Development, Washington

Protecting the poorest – identifying new financial resources to help developing countries

In a webcast for London Summit YouTube channel, Nancy Birdsall President of the Center for Global Development says she believes that ‘the biggest issue for developing countries is access to financial resources.’

These are needed for trade finance and recapitalising their banks ‘because of revenue shortfalls that are undermining their safety-net programmes.’

She feels there’s a need to bring together potential new financial resources, making them available through the international financial institutions.

IFIs need to make it easier for developing countries to use that capital and institute ex-post monitoring to minimise abuses.

Colin Bradford, Brookings Institution

Colin Bradford of the Brookings Institute says harmonising national fiscal boosts would magnify their impact

 

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