G33 (developing countries)
With the designation G33 ( abbreviation for group of thirty-three ), two different informal coalitions of states are meant.
Newer G33 of developing countries
The G33 is a group of developing countries that joined forces in March 2006 to better represent their interests.
Members are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Cuba, Laos, Mauritius, Madagascar, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda and Venezuela.
The G33 occurs as a negotiating coalition ( "bargaining coalition " ) within the WTO, about to negotiate special terms for developing countries in agriculture.
There are countries that have large rural population, but nevertheless are also agricultural importers. Their main demand is to give developing countries the opportunity to nominate for the economic development of their countries " strategic products " that are exempted from further tariff reductions or commitments to market opening, as well as specific security mechanisms ( "Special Safeguard Mechanisms " ) to protect domestic to be able to introduce markets. So in contrast to the G20 of developing countries pursue more defensive goals.
The importance of the group is located in the sustainable Demanding the right to development compatibility of the Doha agenda and the assertion of the claim that developing countries a policy space ("policy space" ) need to draw from trade liberalization benefits.
Former G33 developed and emerging countries
As G33, an earlier group of finance ministers and central bankers from industrialized and emerging countries was called.
On March 11, 1999, at a meeting on the Petersberg near Bonn from the G22, a group show, which was the same year the G20 later. It dealt with the international financial architecture and grew out of an initiative of the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G7.
This G 33 had the members of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, People's Republic of China, Germany, Ivory Coast, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and United States.
Other groups of states
- G7 - The seven leading industrial nations of the world, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom and United States ( 1975-1998 )
- G8 - the expansion of the G7 to Russia in 1998
- G8 5 - G8 expanded to include emerging economies of China, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa
- G15 - Cooperation of 15 developing countries
- G20 - Group of Twenty major industrialized and emerging countries
- Group of Twenty - Originally 20 developing and emerging countries