Five years after the global financial crisis shook the world’s developed economies to their foundations and hastened the rise of the emerging powers in the global economy, questions remain about the nature and effectiveness of the international response to the crisis. Daniel McDowell highlights the re-emergence of monetary and industrial policy in developed countries’ efforts to return to growth. Stefano Pagliari examines post-crisis reforms to the financial sector and the politics that constrain them. And Mark Thirlwell explains why the G-20 may be the victim of its initial post-crisis successes in shoring up global economic governance.
