G20 Argentina: 49 policy briefs for global governance

The Think 20 Task Forces have defined their agenda for 2018 G20 Presidency. This includes the number of policy briefs they will produce, the main topics of the study and the meetings they will have during the year.

The experts that make up the Task Forces met during the Inception Workshop: Vision and Strategies for 2018 at the start of February in Buenos Aires. After the initial launch, the groups defined their Program of Work of the T20 Argentina with information about the main topics, the meeting agenda and the number of policy briefs they will produce.

The topics

The specialists will develop 49 policy briefs on public policies that will present positions and data on the main topics of each Task Force.

1. The future of work for the digital age

• New social contracts for the digital age
• Global norms for new work relations in online platforms
• Teaching and learning XXI century skills
• Measuring the digital economy and its impact on labor
• Education financing
• Technology and economic development      

2. Climate Action and Infrastructure for Development

• Infrastructure and climate action (with finance as the key element)
• Carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidies
• Urban resilience  and climate action (with climate adaptation as the key element)
• Infrastructure for sustainable mobility and economic development

3. Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

• Articulating global food security needs with climate change considerations through trade
• Articulating food security needs and their role in food security and nutrition
• Food security and food waste and losses
• Financing climate-smart agriculture

4. Gender Economic Equity

• Labor inclusion (focused on the care economy and entrepreneurship)
• Financial inclusion
• Digital inclusion
• Rural Women
• Gender Mainstreaming

5. Cooperation with Africa

• Sustainable and inclusive growth
• Political and social environment
• Governance of G20 Africa cooperation
• Monitoring G20 commitments

6. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

• Sustainable finance
• National implementation of the 2030 Agenda
• Advancing G20´s commitment to a truly universal agenda for sustainable development

7. Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation

• Protectionism 2.0 and the global trading system (incl. excess capacity)
• Mitigating the adjustment costs of trade and investment liberalization
• Moving the investment (facilitation) agenda forward
• Digital trade (incl. tax digitalization)
• Tax competition
• Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment

8. Social Cohesion, Global Governance and the Future of Politics

• Current transformation in domestic politics and their implications for global governance
• The challenges of social cohesion and inclusion for global governance
• The interaction between international civil society and global governance institutions

9. An international financial architecture for stability and development

• Coordination of monetary policies
• Coordination of foreign exchange rates
• Capital flow data gaps and financial disclosure
• Strengthening the global safety net
• MDBs and balance sheet optimization
• Cryptoassets

10. Migration

• Data needs to better understand migration processes and inform policymaking
• Children and adolescent migrants and their access to education
• High skilled migrations
• Migration, gender and care occupations
• Regional agreements and the facilitation of orderly, safe and regular migration
• Alternative learning pathways in a mobile world