Despite the scale of the crisis, the G20 response to the Covid-19 pandemic will have been far from being as coordinated and comprehensive as that of 2009 after the Lehman Brothers crash which resulted in massive recapitalizations and a unprecedented strengthening of international financial regulation.
The strength of cooperation of the G20, its ability to steer the world economy, has stalled in recent years.
At issue: the tensions between the two great powers, China and the United States.
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Washington is blocking in particular the taxation of digital technology and the fight against climate change.
However, the health and economic responses to the crisis were quite similar among the members of the G20.
And quite quickly, in the spring, the G20 took measures to help the poorest countries.
Solidarity deemed insufficient by NGOs as well as by the IMF and the World Bank, but which has just been reinforced on the debt.
● Aid to poor countries
The gesture is considered
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