Why g8 is bad

The first G8 meeting took place in , in Birmingham, and the final one was last year, at Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh. That the first and last meetings took place in the United Kingdom was just coincidence. With the end of the Cold War and the rapid onset of globalization in finance, production, communications and other areas of daily life, the institutions of the Group of Eight major market-oriented democracies are rapidly emerging as an effective centre of global governance in the contemporary world.

At the annual G8 Summit of their leaders and through a host of ministerial forums, they have moved adroitly to address priority challenges in the fields of economics, security and the new generation of transnational or global issues. Amidst the competition to secure their respective national interests, the members of the G8 have arrived at well-tailored and ambitious agreements to shape the new international order in such areas as security, trade policy, human rights, development assistance and macroeconomic co-ordination.

I feel slightly ashamed. How did I manage to miss all these epoch-shaping agreements? For instance, in February of , six of the seven members met at the Louvre, in Paris, and agreed to halt the precipitous decline of the dollar.

By , Italy and Canada had joined. Over the years, the economics and finance part of the G7 and G8 continued to work moderately well. This feature takes a scan of your hand and tracks its movements to do things like adjust volume or control playback.

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In the case of your hands being dirty, it would be quicker to wash and dry them and then complete the action versus using AirMotion. This phone is as slippery as an ice cube and seems like it just wants to fall off of anything. Could it be the admittedly nice lack of a camera bump? Is LG using a different coating? Is it something to do with the shape? The US model I tested has two cameras, which seems like an odd choice when Samsung is adopting three.

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LG Electronics is a South Korean-based company that makes different products that work with the Android and Google platforms. If the G8 is to survive, it will have to find a niche and lead by example. That explains why the most memorable summits of recent years — Birmingham in , Cologne in and Gleneagles in — were dominated by development. After much arm-twisting by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the G8 agreed at Gleneagles to a package that involved debt relief, an opening-up of western markets to exports from poor countries, and a doubling of aid budgets.

Unless there is a marked improvement over the next 12 months, the Gleneagles accord will be broken. Too many countries are still burdened with unpayable debts, and G8 countries are way off course with their aid pledges.

As for trade, the Doha round has become the international community's version of the Jarndyce v Jarndyce case in Bleak House; never-ending and so complicated that the parties have quite forgotten how it started in the first place. Brown, to his credit, is trying to get the G8 to raise its game. He wants a league table to show how well each country is doing in meeting its Gleneagles aid pledges Britain, perhaps unsurprisingly, would come top.

The portents are not good. The G8 countries like making promises but they are less keen on being held to account for the outcomes. The next country to host the G8 will be Canada, where the prime minister, Stephen Harper, cares as little about development as Berlusconi does. Why worry, say some? The idea of a fireside chat between world leaders might have been a good idea when Giscard d'Estaing dreamt it up in , but it's now time to face reality and scrap the G8 altogether.