Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE. PRINCIPLES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
1. G-20 Summit at Five : time for strategic leadership / Kemal Dervis and Peter Drysdale
PART TWO. MANAGING THE G-20. Adapting to the new normal : the G-20 and the advanced economies five years after Washington / Paola Subacchi
3. The role of emerging economies in major G-20 initiatives / Changyong Rhee and Alok Sheel
4. The G-20 in crisis? Or the G-20 on crises? / Bruce Jones
PART THREE. THE CORE G-20 ECONOMIC AGENDA. 5. Monetary policy coordination : the role of central banks / Rakesh Mohan and Muneesh Kapur
6. Global rebalancing and systemic risk assessment : the G-20 and the International Monetary Fund / Colin I. Bradford and Wonhyuk Lim
7. Fiscal policy responses during crises in Latin America and Europe : implications for the G-20 / Carlos A. Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin
8. The G-20 and financial market regulation / Yoshio Okubo
9. The G-20 and sustainable development / Homi Kharas
PART FOUR. OTHER ISSUES FOR REFORM OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE. 10. A G-20 agenda for the global trade regime / Mari Pangestu and David Nellor
11. The G-20 and international cooperation on climate change / Ross Garnaut
12. The Chinese economy and the future of the G-20 / Huang Yiping
13. Global infrastructure opportunities for the G-20 and regional organizations in the Asia Pacific Region / Andrew Elek, Mahendra Siregar and Maria Monica Wihardja

The leaders' G-20 was born at a time of crisis and panic. In early October 2008, when the United States issued the invitation to the G-20 heads of state or government to assemble in Washington, D.C., on November 15, the world was facing the danger of a total collapse of the financial sector in the United States. With global trade and financial links having grown over the decades, particularly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a financial collapse in the largest economy - and the financial center - of the world would have brought down the entire world economy. Although one cannot measure the impact of the first G-20 meetings on resolving the global financial crisis, most observers agree that decisive action by the US Fed and Treasury, along with G-20 leaders' commitment did make a critical contribution to turning around expectations and arresting what was threatening to become a global economic free-fall. Five years after the inception of the Leaders level G-20, it is anticipated that 2014 will be a year of overall global recovery. What next for the G-20 Summit? Will these summits add ongoing value to global economic governance, or will they will become purely ceremonial gatherings, which continue to take place because of the inertia in such processes? Editors Kemal Derviş (Brookings Institution) and Peter Drysdale (Australian National University) assembled this book with the expectation that the leaders will indeed see 2014 as an opportunity to address longer term challenges and to transform the G-20 from a "crisis committee" into a "steering committee" for the world economy, making it part of a lasting and useful feature of global economic governance.