G20 finance heads face reform calls from Global South

Slowing global growth, banking sector vulnerability and growing calls for multilateral reform will be some of the daunting challenges discussed at the IMF [File: Yuri Gripas/Reuters]

Zurich, Switzerland – The guardians of the global economy are meeting at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week to discuss a daunting set of challenges – slowing global growth, banking sector vulnerability and growing calls for multilateral reform.

Alongside the IMF’s annual spring meetings with the World Bank in Washington, DC, finance ministers and central bank governors (FMCBG) of the Group of Twenty, or G20, will meet on April 12-13th.