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Business Daily turns its beady eye on hopes for the G20 summit, and asks whether there is there going to be a show of unity in the face of global recession.

But can the summit really save the global financial system from depression, re-write financial regulation and banish protectionism?

World Bank economists are warning that a majority of countries in the G20 are not living up to their promises.

Every country arrives with its own agenda. Russia, and China, have floated the idea of a global reserve currency to replace the dollar. Business Daily's Lesley Curwen spoke to Andrei Nechayev, who was Russia's Economics Minister early in the 1990s and now runs a state-owned investment bank.