Most of the communiqué agreed by the Group of 20 finance ministers over the weekend was utter fudge and drivel. Every second sentence seemed to end with “taking into account national circumstances”. Try, too, visualising a “multi-pronged framework”. Many are disappointed about the meeting’s failure to properly define economic imbalances. They – and the G20 – should stop wasting their time. Even if yardsticks could be agreed, no one would know what to do with them anyway. Such distractions are a pity because the G20 raised other issues just as important to the global economy but where there is a far better chance of building consensus.
在20國集團(G20)財長週末達成的公報中，大部分內容都是十足的空話和套話。每兩句似乎就有一句的結尾是「考慮到各國國情」。再試著想一下「多方面框架」究竟該是什麼樣子。許多人對於本次會議未能恰當定義經濟失衡感到失望。他們——還有G20——應當停止浪費時間。即便各方能夠就衡量標準達成一致，也沒人知道該拿這些標準怎麼辦。這種分心令人遺憾，因爲G20提出了對全球經濟同樣重要的其它問題，而在那些問題上凝聚共識的機會要大得多。