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.
- Repurposing our Economies – and our Businesses
- Toward Global Paradigm Change
- Beyond Capital and Wealth: Challenges of the G20
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Think 20 Dialogue
Japan has assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, 2018. The Japanese government has mandated Asian Development Bank Institute, The Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Institute for International Monetary Affairs to take the lead role in coordinating the T20 Japan 2019 process during its presidency until November 30, 2019. Ten 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 (https://www.g20-insights.org/) and the Japanese T20 process (https://t20japan.org/ ) online. The Argentina Think 20 Summit 2018 (https://t20argentina.org/) took place in Buenos Aires on September 17-18 2018. 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.
Global Solutions Summit
The annual Global Solutions Summit held by the Global Solutions Initiative is bringing together international Research organizations, thought leaders and decision makers from politics, business and civil communities. The next summit will take place on 18 – 19 March 2019 in Berlin. The summit aims to provide policy recommendations on major G20 issues and thereby to serve as a stepping stone to the Japanese T20 Summit in May 2019 and the Japanese G20 Summit in June 2019. Please find out more at www.global-solutions.international.
Latest Policy Briefs
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High-quality infrastructure and land acquisition for infrastructure development through land trusts
Land acquisition is one of the main difficulties in infrastructure investment. When the construction of a road is planned, city officials must first negotiate with many landowners – a huge investment of time and money during periods of infrastructure construction. Japan experienced a massive problem building commercial building and condominiums, and as a result, started using land trusts extensively. Land trustsallow landowners to keep their property rights while leasing the land to commercial and condominium developers and collecting an annual rent. In this paper, the quality of infrastructure investment can be measured by assessing how much each respective infrastructure helped develop the region. Two measures were used to evaluate the spillover effects of infrastructure investment: One is to examine the changes in GDP along railways and roads compared to other regions where no impact of infrastructure
investment can be observed. Another is to look at changes in tax revenue along the infrastructure investment compared to the region where no impact was created by the infrastructure investment. High-quality infrastructure increases business activities and creates new employment in the region. It also provides opportunities to encourage more female participation in the workforce and to narrow income disparities. To increase spillover effects resulting from infrastructure investments, local government and railway companies must work together to further
develop the regions found alongside these railways and roads. New depot stations must broaden opportunities for SMEs to start their business and by providing new residential districts, to also increase the revenue collected from property and corporate taxes. Previous findings (Yoshino and Abidhadjaev (2016)) show that secondary school education and university education together with infrastructure development increases the spillover effects of infrastructure investments. Secondary school education provides workers with basic skills and a university education further enhances high-quality workers. -
The Need to Promote Digital Financial Literacy for the Digital Age
Digital financial literacy (DFL) is likely to become an increasingly important aspect of education for the Digital Age. The development of the ‘gig’ economy means that individuals will ecome more responsible for their own financial planning, including for retirement. Consumers will need to have increasing financial sophistication to make effective use of financial technology fintech) products and avoid fraud and costly mistakes. G20 countries need to agree on a standardized definition of digital financial literacy, design tools to assess it, and develop strategies and programs to promote digital financial education, including special programs for vulnerable groups.
In The Spotlight
T20 Japan recognizes Global Solutions Summit as associated eventThink20 Japan recognized the Global Solutions Summit as an associated event under its G20 presidency, for its work in bringing think tanks and researchers together to reflect on policy areas relevant to G20 policy makers. More than 150 speakers will participate in […]
Contributing Think Tanks
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Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
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Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
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Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
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Bruegel
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The Brookings Institution
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World Resources Institute
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Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
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Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)
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Centro de Implementacion de Politicas Publicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (CIPPEC)
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HSRC BRICS Research Centre
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University of St. Gallen
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World Health Summit
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African Tax Administration Forum
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OECD
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Zhejiang University Center for Internet and Financial Innovation
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Green Alliance
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RCU
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Michigan State University (MSU)
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Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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World Energy Council
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Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
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Chinese Academy of Engineering
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European School of Management and Technology (ESMT Berlin)
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Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
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Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University, U.K.
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ISEAL Alliance
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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Climate Transparency
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
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International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP)
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Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
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Georgetown University
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
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Hertie School of Governance
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RWI – Leibniz-Institute for Economic Research
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CEPS
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Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) – Member of the Leibniz Association
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El Colegio de México
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Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
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Center for Development Research (ZEF)
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Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
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Oxford Martin School (OMS)
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Zeppelin University gGmbH (ZU)
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Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide
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International Development Research Centre
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PwC Germany
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Agencia Ecología Urbana Barcelona
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Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW)
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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The Bridge Tank
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Hiroshima University
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Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI)
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Elcano Royal Institute
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
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World Inequality Lab – Paris School of Economics
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Sophia University
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Observer Research Foundation (ORF)
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Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
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Columbia University
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International Organization for Migration
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Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
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AICGS – Johns Hopkins University
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ASAP, Asociación Argentina de Presupuesto y Administración Financiera Pública
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Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
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Council on Economic Policies
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Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
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University College London
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Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)
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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
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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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Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCIS)