ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the contribution made by the G8 Summits both in international trade and in international development issues. It focuses on the results achieved at Okinawa 2000 and Genoa 2001, together with the summits that followed. The first was the successful launch and pursuit of a new negotiating round in the World Trade Organization, to redeem the failure at Seattle. The most serious was in trade, where the G8 members contributed to the slow progress of the Doha Development Agenda and the mounting frustration of developing countries. The summit showed strong attachment to collective management both on trade, with Zoellick and Lamy working together to overcome earlier divisions, and on development initiatives like Communications Technology and infectious diseases. The task-force worked closely with the World Bank, which was seeking to identify and encourage those policies that would enable poor countries to benefit from outside help in improving their primary education systems.
