i'm here with peter draper from south africa he's a senior research fellow at the
south african institute of international affairs well come at the german development institute
peter
what you see as the major contribution of the program managing global governance which is
implemented jointly by the german development institute and g i's that
what i think one has to start from the standpoint that the developing countries in
the g twenty now
all relatively new participants and managing global economic evidence so if one contrasted with the
g seven the g eight minutes various incarnations before that is a lot of institutional
experience expertise knowledge et cetera and knowledge of how to run the global system
where is these developing countries a relatively new and inexperienced so i think these significant
contribution that this program acts used at a key individuals out of these countries and
you miss them in that habits of thought best practises et cetera
and then that's people go back to the countries obviously and in part that knowledge
and expertise so i think it's a building process but it's a fundamental building
today you're giving a public lecture at the german development institute on sub saharan africa
and g twenty responses to the global financial crisis
in your view what is the contribution of the g twenty two economic development in
sub saharan africa
this no short answer to that question that the subtitle up to talk is first
do no harm
and essentially the purpose of the paper is to say that the
the thoughts and the product policies outlined in last year's soul consensus
on paper or a very good building block and the right policy initially to a
place and are referred to
our concern however is with the political rhetoric and the political
dynamic set on the light implementation of those a good intention shall we say
so if it if the politics assumes a bad course and if countries resort to
make and list actions trait protection particularly
karen ct evaluations et cetera
then the impact some sub saharan africa which of course is the poorest of the
poor a likely to be pretty severe
so are essentially what we saying is first you know how so you have a
good policy document implement what is in the policy document
and don't resort to make and list actions
finally what is the role of emerging powers like south africa in this respect
so the africa is any managing middle however so it if you like it has
its feature to will sit
is the key bridge to the developed world it is also a key bridge to
developing countries but particularly african developed countries
so the it is a key voice for a form of the global governance system
it can but participate in those debates and listen to
many other african countries that also want to have a voice but are not represented
and that's essentially what the cell definite government tries to do represents its own interests
south africa has a strong financial sector for example
and has interest in financial sector reforms and wants to shape and the extent that
it can
but also it wants to represent african interesting reform of the international monetary fund for
example and of the multilateral institutions
peter draper thank you so much for joining us today here at the german development
institute in bonn