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Sat 07 Jul 2009Are the rich states being dwarfed by world's emerging economic giants?
Sometime eight is too small a number. And sometimes it is just right, writes JAMIE SMYTH
WHEN THE leaders of the world’s eight leading economies waved goodbye to L’Aquila at the end of the G8 summit yesterday, they heralded commitments on climate change, food security and the economy. But they left a more fundamental question unresolved: in an increasingly interconnected world, is the G8 still the best format to solve the biggest international problems?
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