POLICY AREAS
The following policy areas reflect important threads of the G20 work agenda that are of interest to G20 policy makers. Please choose your area of interest and find the respective policy recommendations on the following pages.
Overarching Visions
Visions help policy makers think about the principles for designing policies and help them communicate policies to the public. The Visions aim to align the policy objectives of different G20 member states.
- Beyond Capital and Wealth: Challenges of the G20
- Realigning Business, Economies and Society
- Advancing Human-Centred Economic Progress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Leadership Agenda for G20 Governments
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Think 20 Dialogue
Argentina has assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2017. The Argentine government has mandated CIPPEC and CARI with organizing the T20 process during its presidency until November 30, 2018. T20 Task Forces have been established to prepare Policy Briefs for the ongoing dialogue with G20 decision makers and other relevant stakeholders.
Learn more about the G20 Insight Platform and the Argentine T20 process online at T20argentina.org. The German Think 20 Summit 2017 – GLOBAL SOLUTIONS took place in Berlin on May 29-30 2017. Please find more information at global-solutions.international.
Latest Policy Briefs
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A Future of Work that Works for Women
Future of Work debate has been more centered on robots than on workers. The excessive focus on automation and technology’s potential displacement of jobs has neglected other trends that are also re-shaping the labor market as we know it. Digitalization and the gig economy, demographic changes and the associated care crisis, and the demand of new skills are equally important and will have a major impact on how we understand and carry out work. Critically, evidence suggests that these trends have specific implications for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The contribution of this brief is to place a gender lens on the future of work debate, highlighting what is known – as well as remaining data gaps – and make firm policy proposals.
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T20 Co-Chair BriefMend It, Don´t End It: The case for upgrading the G20’s pledge on protectionism
Despite neutering the official monitoring of protectionism, unmistakable evidence assembled from state sources demonstrates that G20 members routinely violate their “no protectionism” pledge. The scale of trade affected should concern senior officials: by March 2018 over 80% of G20 goods exports competed against trade distortions implemented since November 2008 that were still in force. That percentage falls to 30% if export-related trade distortions are set aside, a total that excludes as yet unimplemented recent high-profile import restrictions.
Concerns that the current G20 approach does not address the full range of policy intervention that distort 21st century commerce should be addressed by Leaders taking two steps: expanding the scope of the G20 protectionist pledge and calling for upgraded monitoring.
Rather than engaging in another fruitless debate about what constitutes protectionism, a principle-based approach should be pursued. G20 Leaders should adopt text that condemns any discriminatory policy intervention, unless a widely-accepted exception is invoked that is justified by evidence, least distortive, implemented only after completing established procedures, and subject to timely review.
G20 Leaders should also adopt text calling on relevant international organisations to redouble their monitoring efforts in line with this principle-based approach and to improve substantially their coverage of the services and intangible economies.
In The Spotlight
G20 Research Group: G20 Argentina: The 2018 Buenos Aires SummitJohn Kirton, Madeline Koch and the G20 Research Group are pleased to announce the release of our latest publication, G20 Argentina: The 2018 Buenos Aires Summit, available for download at http://bit.ly/G20BuenosAires. Printed copies will be available at the International Media Centre in […]
Contributing Think Tanks
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Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
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Hiroshima University
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Bruegel
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RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research
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Oxford Martin School (OMS)
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Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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Green Alliance
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
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Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
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Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
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Georgetown University
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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
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University College London
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World Energy Council
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World Health Summit
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Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
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Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW)
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
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Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
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World Inequality Lab – Paris School of Economics
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Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
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South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
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European School of Management and Technology (ESMT Berlin)
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
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Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)
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Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
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Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
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Zeppelin University gGmbH (ZU)
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Center for Development Research (ZEF)
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Elcano Royal Institute
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AICGS – Johns Hopkins University
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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, U.K.
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African Tax Administration Forum
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
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German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
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Zhejiang University Center for Internet and Financial Innovation
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Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
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Hertie School of Governance
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Climate Transparency
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Agencia Ecología Urbana Barcelona
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Chinese Academy of Engineering
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Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
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World Resources Institute
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
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PwC Germany
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International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP)
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Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
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Michigan State University (MSU)
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Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
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International Organization for Migration
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Council on Economic Policies
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ASAP, Asociación Argentina de Presupuesto y Administración Financiera Pública
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Columbia University
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HSRC BRICS Research Centre
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University of St. Gallen
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Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
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ISEAL Alliance
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OECD
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International Development Research Centre
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The Brookings Institution
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Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCIS)
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Japan International Cooperation Agency
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El Colegio de México
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CEPS
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The Bridge Tank
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Sophia University
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Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI)
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RCU