The G-20 may not agree on what to do about big bad bank bonuses, but on the question of the road to recovery they are, at least for the time being, reading the same map, says CNN's London correspondent Richard Quest, in an exclusive column to domain-b

I am on the final leg of my NYLONKONG odyssey. Having been through Hong Kong and New York, I am back in London. Since London is home I need not look too far for the evidence of what is happening in the economy.

But for this last NYLONKONG dispatch I can do better than just the British capital. 

My return coincided with the arrival of the finance ministers of the G-20 countries: the UK is currently in the chair of the G-20, so finance ministers have been meeting here throughout the year.

The G-20 represents more than 85 per cent of the world's economy, so this was a perfect chance for me to widen NYLONKONG to, well, basically the global economy. 

For their September meeting the ministers were hot and bothered about bankers' bonuses and were to begin talking about ''exit strategies'' – that's when to begin withdrawing the vast sums of cash propping up the world, which could ignite a fire of inflation in the future. 

All the ministers I spoke to were agreed on one point – whenever that time is, it is not now.  US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me in an exclusive sit-down interview on Saturday that the the US economy is moving in the right direction but that self-supporting sustained economic growth had not returned yet.