Description:This volume focuses on the challenges for sustaining growth in the 21st century and the role of the G7 and IMF in meeting them amidst the processes of regionalism now emerging. It assesses how well the G7 has addressed individually and interrelated ambitiously its core 2002 agenda of sustaining global growth, reducing poverty in Africa, combating terrorism and its financing. It examines how the IMF has approached these issues and related work of the G7. It also explores how both the G7, IMF and other international institutions are addressing global growth and development challenges in the context of the new processes of regionalism. Pressures such as currency consolidation in Asia and economic union in Africa are studied. This book builds on previous volumes in the series with a heavy focus on the World Bank, the regional development banks and the many other international institutions that work in the field of development.