Global Development

Multilateral Development Organizations

An overall view of the First Plenary Session at the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy at the National Building Museum in Washington (REUTERS/Jason Reed).

Paper

The Group of Twenty: Origins, Prospects and Challenges for Global Governance

August 2012, Homi Kharas and Domenico Lombardi

Homi Kharas and Domenico Lombardi discuss the history of and emerging literature on the Group of 20, and assess both the expansion of the G-20’s scope to global development and the group’s evolution in the broader context of the current global governance framework.