This paper identifies specific membership criteria and shows the effect they will have on the G20's composition. Setting clear criteria will be controversial — in part because it will require the replacement of several current members. Such change may be painful, but with another recession...

In this paper I argue that middle powers that are members of the G20 can extract substantial benefit from their participation in the G20 if they have both a clear long term vision of global economic governance and a plan of action that is based on obtainable short term objectives. In the article...

Many financial and economic professionals are under-appreciative (and some, possibly, unaware) of what is stated in the second part of this paper's title: the biggest players in "fixing" the global financial system are the Group of Twenty (G20) largest and most powerful economic and financial...