Will the G8 summit lead to actions?
Published: 12 July, 2009, 10:00
TAGS: Politics, The Resident, USA
As the G8 leaders met this week to try and solve the world’s biggest problems, many critics of the summits have branded them mere talking shops that achieve little.
New York-based journalist Lori Harfenist asks what the people on the streets would like the powerful to talk about and whether they think it leads to action.
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