List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
3G Global Governance Group
ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nations
FAO United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
GCC Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
IMF International Monetary Fund
IMS International Monetary System
IGC International Grains Council
IMF International Monetary Fund
JADI Joint Agriculture Data Initiative
JODI Joint Oil Data Initiative
NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
SDR special drawing rights
WEF World Economic Forum

Preface
This report on the plans for the G20 is compiled by the G20 Research Group based on
public sources as an aid to researchers and stakeholders interested in the G20 and its
invited guests. The report is updated periodically. Note that this document refers to the
meeting (summit) of Group of Twenty (G20) leaders, who met for the first time on
November 14-15, 2008, in Washington DC, and the G20 finance ministers and central
bank governors, who began meeting in 1999 (as opposed to other groupings such as the
G20 developing countries formed in response to the agricultural negotiations at the World
Trade Organization or the G20 that met under the auspices of the Gleneagles Dialogue).