section_path: Views on the G20's exclusivity of membership/Foreign Policy critiques
section_name: Foreign Policy critiques
paragraph_text: Foreign Policy critiques
  
  The American magazine Foreign Policy has published articles condemning the G20, in terms of its principal function as an alternative to the supposedly exclusive G8. It questions the actions of some of the G20 members and advances the notion that some states should not have membership in the first place. Furthermore, with the effects of the Great Recession still ongoing, the magazine has criticized the G20's efforts to implement reforms of the world's financial institutions, branding such efforts as failures.