- | G-20 Seoul Summit
Twenty world leaders came together in Seoul to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis. Together, they will take the necessary steps to reduce market volatility and move past the crisis, creating sustainable growth g ...
- | 2010 United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals
The UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals reviewed the progress made in the MDGs achievement when only 5 years last to its deadline.
- | G-20 Tronto Summit
One of the main agenda at the conference was an agreement on principles for fiscal consolidation by advanced economies.
- | World Food Summit on Food Security
The global food insecurity situation has worsened and continues to represent a serious threat for humanity. With food prices remaining stubbornly high in developing countries, the number of people suffering from hunger has been growing relentlessly in rece ...
- | IMF - World Bank Annual Meetings 2009
The Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group each year bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, private sector executives, and academics to discuss issues of global concern, including th ...
- | G20 Pittsburgh Summit
Third G20 meeting in the last year. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was host to the G-20 Summit held from September 24-25, 2009. President Obama chaired the meeting of leaders from countries around the world that represent 85 percent of the world’s economy. At th ...
- | United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development
The United Nations is convening a three-day summit of world leaders from 24 to 26 June 2009 at its New York Headquarters to assess the worst global economic downturn since the Great Depression. The aim is to identify emergency and long-term responses to mi ...
- | G20 London Summit
On 2 April 2009, world leaders from the G20 countries – representing 85% of the world’s output – met in London. They met against the backdrop of the worst international banking crisis in generations.
Building on the outcome of the Washington Summit in Nove ...
- | G-20 Washington Summit
The G-20 Washington Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy achieved general agreement among the G-20 on how to cooperate in key areas so as to strengthen economic growth, deal with the financial crisis, and lay the foundation for reform to avoid ...
- | G8 Heiligendamm Summit
The annual summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations (G8) held in Heiligendamm. Earlier, the Heads of State and Government had reached wide ranging agreements on all key issues on the agenda: from climate protection to Africa policy to th ...
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 6th
The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, should have been the last Ministerial Conference of the Doha Round, held in 2001. It was, after the failure of the Cancun Conference, the last chance to relaunch the Development Round, but it failed a ...
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 5th
The Cancún meeting’s special task was to take stock of progress in the [Doha Development Agenda] negotiations, provide any necessary political guidance and take decisions as necessary.
It failed because of the opposition of the least developed countries t ...
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 4th
Also known as The Development Round. It was held after September 11th attacks.
Main Issues: agriculture and services, related aspects of intellectual property rights, electronic comerce, least-developed countries, trade and environment, aid for trade and ...
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 3rd
The Seattle Ministerial Confference wanted to launch a new round of trade negotiations, but it had to be postponed becuse of the street protests. The main issues were agriculture, services and how entry into the WTO the new members.
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 2nd
This was the second Ministerial Conference after the Uruguay Round.
- | WTO Ministerial Conference, 1st
This was the first Ministerial Conference after the WTO creation in 1995. Its main issues were the famous "Singapore issues", refering to four working groups: investment protection, competition policy, transparency in government procurement and trade facil ...
