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G20 Summit: What they should achieve 41Takatoshi ItoDelivering change. Together. 45Wendy DobsonEast Asia's Self-managed Reserve Pooling Arrangement and theglobal financial architecture 49Yung Chul ParkThe New Bretton Woods agreement 53Guillermo CalvoA New Bretton Woods system should curb boom and bust 57Vijay Joshi and David VinesTargeted improvements in crisis resolution, not a New Bretton Woods 61Erik Berglöf and Jeromin ZettelmeyerSave Doha to save the G20 Summit 65Ernesto Zedillo
IntroductionThe global economic, financial and political situation has reached a dangerous point.Governments and central banks have staunched the bleeding in their financial systemsfor the moment by nationalising banks, guaranteeing their liabilities, and backstoppingmarkets in debt securities. But they lack an exit strategy from the awkwardposition in which they now find themselves. Nor is it clear that they are prepared forthe next round of financial difficulties that will follow as the crisis spreads from WallStreet to Main Street and from advanced countries to emerging markets. There is noagreement on what to do about the global economic downturn. Economically andfinancially there is a clear sense of things spiralling out of control again.Turning from the crisis to the reform agenda, there is no consensus about how toprevent a recurrence. Everyone agrees on the need to strengthen supervision and regulation,but there is no agreement on how to go about this. Everyone recognises thethreat posed by large cross border institutions and banks that are too big to save, butthere are few practical ideas for solving these problems.Finally, this is a difficult political moment. The US is in the interregnum betweenadministrations. The EU is approaching another periodic change in its presidency;once again it is not clear who to phone when you want to talk to Europe.The world cannot wait, but the meeting presents dangers as well asopportunitiesThese are not propitious circumstances for a G20 meeting to discuss a new internationalfinancial architecture. Yet the condition of the global financial system andthe world economy is too delicate to wait. The need is urgent for substantive steps tostabilise the global economy and reform the financial system.But there is also a danger attached to this meeting. Leaders come exceptionally illprepared. It is not as if their staffs have had months to craft thoughtful backgroundnotes. An empty declaration – ‘we assembled G20 heads of state commit to stabilisingour economies and strengthening the regulation of our financial systems throughongoing collaboration,’ like that issued by the G7 in October – will only demoralisethe markets. Signs that our leaders are bereft of ideas and unable to agree on prioritieswill tell investors that the future will resemble the recent past. The meeting willthen do damage rather than repair it.The purpose of this bookAlert to this danger, we have assembled leading economists from the G20 countriesto provide proposals for the meeting. Our contributors identify four priorities.• Use additional triage to staunch the financial bleeding and fiscal stimulus to getthe patient's heart pumping again.• Strengthen existing institutions.1
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