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After two years of summits bringing together heads of state and government, the G-20 is slowly and fitfully reforming the international economic order. In Seoul, three new initiatives have emerged: part of the financial reform, the governance of the IMF and a development agenda. In the list of matters pending, there is yet another postponement –although with renewed vigor for 2011– that of coordination of macroeconomic policies to correct global imbalances, and concluding the Doha Round of trade talks under the WTO.