This weekend’s meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors appears to have achieved as little as expected. The most substantive decision was to agree a list of indicators which will be used to assess global imbalances in future. We expect progress on this issue to proceed at a glacial speed this year, doing nothing to allay our concerns that there could be a serious escalation in protectionism in 2012.
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