Membership of Key Economies in International Organisations

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

This article discusses the membership of 43 key economies in the major international financial institutions. The aim is to assess whether the global financial architecture adequately incorporates the key economies. The article can also be found in this PDF-Document. The chart (left) lists 21 international organizations. Some of them are grouped ...

G7-April-2008-Meeting and Plaza-Accord

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

French Finance Minister Christine Lagard has compared the recent FSF-report released by the G7 Finance Ministers last week to the Plaza Accord (as quoted by Christopher Swann in an article at Bloomington): The April 11 statement was "not very different'' from the importance of the 1985 Plaza Accord. The Plaza Accord reached ...