Perspectives on the upcoming G20 meeting in Toronto
As you are no doubt aware, Toronto is playing host to the upcoming G20 summit June 26th and 27th. It’s a good time, therefore, to take a look at some information sites and other resources related to the group. Here are just a few – there are many many more out there.
- The Government of Canada has a website devoted to the G20 and its meeting in Toronto. On this site you can find government news, videos, Ministers’ statements, and a calendar of events.
- The University of Toronto, through its Munk School of Global Affairs, has a G20 Information Centre with extensive links to news features; Ministers’ statements and communiques; G20 Official Documents, factsheets and newsdesk publications; and links to both U of T and external research reports.
- OECD and the G20 is a topic page on the OECD website which provides information and links to relevant OECD reports, video clips, working papers and OECD leaders’ statements.
- The World Bank has a blog devoted to the G20. The posts are substantive and include World Bank or other high quality data sources where relevant. Recent post topics include: auto sales, poverty, protectionism, and good governance.
- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) maintains a Principal Global Indicators webpage “to facilitate the monitoring of economic and financial developments for these systemically important economies. Launched in response to the on-going financial and economic crisis, it is hosted by the IMF, and is a joint undertaking of the Inter-Agency Group on Economic and Financial Statistics: Bank for International Settlements (BIS), European Central Bank (ECB), Eurostat, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN), and the World Bank (WB).”