The G20 Development Agenda

Parthasarathi Shome is Adviser to the Indian Finance Minister. He was Chairman of the Expert Committee on General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), Government of India, from July to October 2012; Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, from 2011 to 2012; Chief Economist of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, United Kingdom, from 2008 to 2011; and Adviser to the Indian Finance Minister (Secretary) from 2004 to 2008. He received the highest civilian honour of the Government of Brazil, Commander of the Order of the Southern Cross, in 2000, for his contributions to Brazilian tax reform.

• List of tables and figures; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Group of 20 Parthasarathi Shome and Francis Rathinam; Part II. The Development Agenda: 2. Commodity market policy for food security – the road ahead for G20 Rajesh Chakrabarti, Francis Xavier Rathinam and Vijay Kumar Varadi; 3. Recycling global surpluses for infrastructure investment in emerging market economies Renu Kohli; 4. G20: impact of the crisis with special reference to India and international burden sharing D. K. Srivastava; 5. India's growth prospect: structural impediments Kirit S. Parikh; Part III. Energy Security and Environmental Sustainability: 6. The co-benefit principle and the Durban platform: towards an inclusive framework for negotiating climate finance A. Damodaran; 7. Greening the G20 agenda: a way forward Parthasarathi Shome and Amrita Goldar; 8. Revisiting fossil-fuel subsidies in the context of ongoing G20 dialogue Meeta Keswani Mehra and Divya Datt; 9. Should India join the international energy agency? Prodipto Ghosh; Contributors; Index.

'This edited book provides a detailed description of India's perspective of the G20 development agenda. Laying out the purpose and evolution of the agenda in the context of the 2008–9 global financial crisis … the book urges the extension of the G20 agenda in the post-2010 period to more efficiently address concerns of developing members … such as India. In this vein, chapters of the book offer 'India's perspectives' on issues of the G20 development agenda … that are significant to India. The chapters address these issues well, discuss the successes and failures of the G20 agenda to address these issues in a more global manner, and argue for expanding the G20 development agenda to include the perspectives of developing countries and make the G20 a 'gateway' to gain credibility in the global governance area. The book, with its issue-specific information and supporting tables and figures, represents an impressive 'Indian perspective' in assessing the G20 agenda.' R. Das, Choice