Eston E. Baker & Holden J Murray 
International Economic Cooperation 
Institutions, Funds, and Banks

The Group of Twenty, or G-20, is a forum for advancing economic cooperation among 20 major advanced and emerging-market countries. The G-20 was originally established to facilitate discussions among the G-20 finance ministers. The prominence of the G-20 increased with the onset of the global financial crisis in the fall of 2008, and the G-20 started meeting at the leader level. In September 2009, the G-20 leaders announced that, henceforth, the G-20 would be the "premier" forum for international economic cooperation. This book examines the major G-20 commitments that could influence or shape the policy and legislative agenda for international economic coordination; background and issues of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); the Paris Club and international debt relief; mulilateral development banks; international climate change financing; international environmental financing; and The World Bank Group energy sector strategy.