How to find $280bn for poor countries this weekend

This weekend the finance ministers of the G20 – the world’s most powerful nations -will meet in London.  While the rich world’s green shootists apparently feel that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us, the poorest countries are being hammered, with those living on the margins of the global economy paying the highest price for the bankers’ folly. Here are 3 easy ways the finance ministers can raise $280bn (the cost of two AIG bailouts) to help ease the pain.

Duncan Green shares three steps the G20 can take to raise much needed funds for the world’s poorest nations.