Rebuilding Global Trade : Proposals for a Fairer, More Sustainable Future

In advance of the G20 London Summit in early April 2009, and in the context of the economic crisis, the immediate priority of many governments and trade experts was rightly to create and implement a strategy that would offset declining trade and investment, particularly in developing countries where the crisis threatens to impede economic growth and development progress made in recent years. In an effort to address these pressing issues and provide suggestions for G20 leaders' deliberations, this collection assembled short essays from a broad range of scholars and experts around the world. Contributing authors were asked to consider, among other points, concrete proposals for trade-related actions that G20 leaders should undertake; challenges facing the multilateral trading system in the long term; and an examination of the reality and needs of developing countries in the context of the crisis