International Financial Institutions

With a voting majority at the Bretton Woods Institutions, the G7 and EU can collectively ask the institutions to comply with their sanctions. This is complicating the IMF and World Bank’s functions.

A perfect storm of economic forces threatens to swamp developing countries, and the international community—starting with the G20—isn’t prepared to do much about it. 

From inflation to sanctions, these are the key questions facing the G7 countries—which represent around half the global economy—at their upcoming summit.