Proposal 1: Create and adopt a common template for reporting on the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs In 2014, the G20 adopted the Accountability Framework to report on G20’s development commitments. The framework includes the preparation of an Annual Progress Report. At […]
Care is essential for the young, the sick and the elderly. At some point in our lives we all need care and benefit from the care of others. This policy brief underscores that we all have a right to care and to […]
A New Approach to Mainstreaming Recognizing that “gender gaps are often the result of multiple and mutually reinforcing constraints …. require coordinated multi-sectoral interventions, or sequential interventions,” the World Bank proposed four principles including: comprehensive gender diagnostics, targeting determinants of gender equity; […]
Case Studies Many barriers to women’s digital inclusion are traditional gender restrictions, which manifest themselves in laws or socio-cultural norms, poverty, lower educational opportunities for girls and restricted access to labour markets, as well as persistent gender stereotypes. Accordingly, policies aimed at […]
Background In 2015, with the adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDG), all countries agreed to sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss (SDG # 15). The Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture agreed to at […]
DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE URBAN MODEL AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE To meet the targets of the Paris Agreement, cities must renew existing systems and infrastructures; fast-growing cities need to improve and strive to develop urban decision-making skills in order to achieve zero emissions. At […]
Policy Action 1a. Ensure realistic and feasible policy planning The focus on learning outcomes is quite justified. When more children complete primary education with unsatisfactory learning, pressure on different levels of education is intensified. Children need to be prepared for school through […]
The proposal is that the T20 should seek to develop a trans-national resource that would enable policymakers rapidly to access information about new approaches to funding and financing post-compulsory education and to identify which examples might be particularly relevant to their own […]
1. Reaffirm the purposes of trade agreements. Before addressing how trade agreements may be retooled, we need to clarify what are and should be the purposes of a multilateral organization for trade like the World Trade Organization (WTO). To characterize the purpose […]
Diversity of economic and social policies among open economies The diversity of economic and social policies belies the claim that globalization has imposed a uniform mantle of norms and policies over most countries. This is illustrated both on the revenue side and […]
(1) Strengthening G20 country strategies for domestic implementation of the 2030 Agenda Rationale. No G20 country appears to be on track to meet all of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s annual SDG Index […]
In making corporate decisions, managers currently have a duty to the firm and its investors. To reduce systemic externalities, this policy brief recommends that managers should also have a public governance duty not to engage their firms in excessive risk-taking that leads […]
This policy brief explains why commercial law should recognize those de facto rights to facilitate credit for the economically disadvantaged. It also analyzes how commercial law pragmatically could be adapted to implement that recognition. Analysis Modern commercial law already recognizes important policy […]
We call on G20 leaders to task development finance institutions (DFIs) such as the development banks in member countries and the Multi-lateral Development Banks (MDBs) of which G-20 countries are members, to commit: to scaling up resources by 25 percent, to calibrate […]
There are a number of coordinated actions that G20 member countries could initiate to take the newly available information into consideration and thus contribute to the development of world agriculture with lower carbon emissions. However, there are three proposals that we consider […]
Proposal 1 G20 member countries should report frequently and comprehensively on the fiscal cost of tax expenditures Rationale The tax expenditures debate should be about the pros and cons of a particular tool and not about the goals. An accurate measurement of […]
1. Promoting international investment policy reform The G20 should continue its important work on international investment policy reform in 2018 and, in particular, initiate steps to operationalise its Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking, agreed upon in 2016 during the Chinese presidency.[1] […]
Introduction The creative industries are a new sector compared with, for example, more traditional manufacturing and service sectors, but have grown up with maverick work practices and career patterns that are now becoming more prevalent in other industries. By the Creative Industries […]
In facilitating the redirection of investment in food systems compatible with the 2030 Agenda, we suggest that the G20 take action in relation to each of the three categories of action elaborated above: Strengthen global platforms for the benchmarking and coordination of […]
Building on the thinking of companies, think tanks, unions, academics and analytical media[1], the following set of principles on data collection and AI in the workplace are proposed for consideration by the G-20 in Buenos Aires. The Framework Principles Data collection in […]