Senior European and U.S. officials said on Friday the G20 summit next month must take steps to help developing nations hit by the economic crisis or run the risk of more poverty and insecurity, according to Reuters. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's special representative to the London summit said developing nations had initially been considered relatively immune to the crisis as they did not have developed or liberalised banking sectors. "Now that it's become a real economic crisis, it's hitting them right between the eyes," Foreign Office Minister Mark Malloch-Brown told the annual Brussels Forum. "It's not jobs only that they are losing but in some cases people are being driven into poverty and terrible conditions." Malloch-Brown said the summit should help restore economic confidence thoughout the world. "The whole world has got to at some point say there are people in charge here... We're going to need a real action plan, or we're going to be in trouble. "I know there will be a united view between Europeans and the U.S. on this... There is a common view that we have to do something quite significant for them (the poor)," he said.
