G-20 fritters as crisis deepens

Asia Times Online, 19 Mar 2009, Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 (G-20) countries who met in London at the weekend to draft an agenda for the eagerly awaited April 2 group summit in the United Kingdom capital failed to address the nuts and bolts issues and misdiagnosed the reasons underlying the global economic and financial meltdown.
There is still time to improve and strengthen the agenda before April 2. If they fail, the April meeting will be piled on the trash heap of history, another meeting with no substantive results.
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