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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.
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OECD Statistical Narratives

The OECD has just launched a new page that it is calling “Statistical Narratives.” The aim of this page is to feature select statistical tables – usually from a topical subject – and present them with a brief explanatory article.  The result?  A sort of news feature mashed up with supporting data.  The articles are readable and go a long way to providing context for the statistics.  OECD hopes that the page will “build knowledge from statistics, as well as give users a sense of what statistics are available from the OECD.”

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G8 Summit Resource

Well, this find seemed topical.  There is a G8 research group at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.  The group maintains a very useful website: http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/ which provides access to a large chunk of the group’s analysis and reports.  Monographs published by commercial publishers are not available online.

The site also links to available “Delegations; declaration and communiqués; other official releases; documents released by national delegations at summits; available transcripts of summit news conferences” for G8 & G7 summits dating back to the 1975 Summit in Rambouillet.

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