Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

The Making of a Seoul Development: Consensus The essential development agenda for the G20

Jasmine Burnley, Elizabeth Stuart

October 2010

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

When the G20 meets in Seoul in November 2010, it has a big choice to make. It can either retreat into a narrow focus on its own interests, or it can prove it is capable of genuine global leadership in the face of the interlinked economic, food, and climate change crises. The G20 must adopt a Seoul ‘development consensus' that confronts the challenges of the 21st century: reducing inequality and tackling global poverty through sustainable, equitable growth that gives poor women and men, and their governments, the tools they need to overcome poverty.