G33

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The term G33 (abbreviation for Group of Thirty-three ) refers to two different informal associations of states.

Newer G33 of developing countries

Member states of the current G33 developing countries

It is a group of mostly developing countries that joined together 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 , St. Lucia , St. Vincent and the Grenadines , Zambia , Senegal , Zimbabwe , Sri Lanka , Suriname , Tanzania , Trinidad and Tobago , Turkey , Uganda and Venezuela .

The G33 acts as a bargaining coalition within the framework of the WTO , for example to negotiate special conditions for developing countries in the agricultural sector.

These are countries that have a large rural population, but are also agricultural importers. Their central demand is: to give the developing countries the opportunity to name "strategic products" for the economic development of their countries, which are exempt from further tariff reductions or obligations to open markets, as well as special safeguard mechanisms to protect the local population To be able to introduce markets. In contrast to the G20 of developing countries , they are pursuing more defensive goals.

The importance of the group lies in the demand for development compatibility of the Doha agenda and the assertion of the demand that developing countries need a political space ("policy space") in order to derive advantages from trade liberalization.

Former G33 of industrialized and emerging countries

Member states of the former G33 of industrialized and emerging countries

A former group of finance ministers and central bank heads of industrialized and emerging countries was also referred to as the G33 .

On March 11, 1999, at a meeting on the Petersberg near Bonn, the G22 emerged into a group that later that year became the G20 . It dealt with the international financial architecture and emerged from an initiative of the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G7 .

G 33 members were Egypt , Argentina , Australia , Belgium , Brazil , Chile , People's Republic of China , Germany , Ivory Coast , France , Great Britain , Hong Kong , India , Indonesia , Italy , Japan , Canada , Malaysia , Morocco , Mexico , the Netherlands , Poland , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Sweden , Switzerland , Singapore , Spain , South Africa , South Korea , Thailand , Turkey and USA .

Other groups of states

  • UN - The United Nations is the world's most important group of states, an association of 193 states
  • G7 - the seven most important industrial nations in the world Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom and USA (1975–1998, new beginning 2014)
  • G8 - the expansion of the G7 to include Russia (1998-2014)
  • G8 + 5 - G8 expanded to include emerging countries China, Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa
  • G15 - cooperation between 15 developing countries
  • G20 - group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries

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