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G20

Definition

Group of Twenty. The G20 includes the G8 members and major emerging market countries, providing a forum for finance ministers and central bank governors to address international finance issues.

Source

Glossary and Abbreviations. "Post-Kyoto-International-Climate Policy". 2009 http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/publication/19017/postkyoto_interna…

Alternative definition

The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialised and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. The inaugural meeting of the G-20 took place in Berlin on 15-16 December 1999, hosted by the German and Canadian finance ministers.

Alternative source

G-20, (http://www.g20.org/), 2006.