Policy Area
Trade, Investment and Growth
POLICY BRIEFS
Policy Briefs contain recommendations or visions and cover policy areas that are of interest to G20 policymakers.
The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding Think20 Task Force.
T20 Recommendations Reports tie related policy proposals made under different G20 Presidencies into a common policy advice framework. They aim to leverage connections between T20 research organizations as well as other stakeholders to address well-defined global problems, in order to support G20 policymakers and to aid business and civil society organizations in complementing G20 policy efforts.
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G20 Japan
Towards G20 Guiding Principles on Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development
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G20 Japan
Expanding and Restructuring Global Value Chains for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
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G20 Japan
Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth
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G20 Japan
Reforming the WTO AB: Short-term and Mid-term Options for DSU Reform, and Alternative Approaches in a Worst Case Scenario
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G20 Japan
Reinvigorating the WTO as a Negotiating Forum
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G20 Japan
The Crisis in World Trade
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Mend It, Don’t End It: The case for upgrading the G20’s pledge on protectionism
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
New Industrial Revolution: Upgrading Trade and Investment Frameworks for Digitalization
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Mobilizing Private Investment and the Compact with Africa: A Preliminary Assessment and Steps Ahead
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Tax Transparency and Exchange of Information (EOI): Priorities for Africa
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Moving the G20’s investment agenda forward
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G20 Argentina
Mitigating the Adjustment Costs of International Trade
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Tax Competition
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G20 Germany
Ageing, Investment and Foreign Trade – a Macroeconomic Perspective
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G20 Germany
Lowering International Trade and Investment Costs and Promoting Trade and Investment Liberalization
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G20 Germany
Revitalizing Multilateral Governance at the World Trade Organization: Executive Brief based on the Report of the High-Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance
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G20 Germany
Tax Collaboration and Capacity Building – Encouraging collaboration between the private and public sectors on tax system reform
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
G20 and Africa: Sectoral policies and delivering on African citizens’ demands
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Tax Certainty
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G20 Germany
How to attract Quality FDI?
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G20 Germany
Measuring cross-border trade in services by trading partner country and company
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Tax Expenditures
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T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Germany
Key policy options for the G20 in 2017 to support an open and inclusive trade and investment system
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On Xi-Trump meeting: Why the Trump-Xi Pact Won’t End Trade Tension
Paul Blustein of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) recognizes that a crisis has been averted at the G20 summit in Osaka; however, it remains crucial to keep a sense of perspective about what was — and was not — accomplished in Osaka.
Why the Trump-Xi Pact at the G20 Summit in Osaka won’t end trade tension
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Before the summit: A New Tax Regime for Big Tech
Kevin Carmichael, senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), shares his perspective on G20 efforts to establish a new tax regime for big tech companies. Such a regime could represent one of the biggest tax revolutions in recent memory.
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Trade at the G-20 Osaka Summit: Jaw, jaw beats war, war
G20 leaders are due to discuss options to revive the moribund World Trade Organization (WTO) at this weekend’s Osaka Summit. Simon J. Evenett and Johannes Fritz discuss that since the last WTO Ministerial Conference in December 2017, trade officials have struggled to take forward several unrelated and incremental initiatives. There seems no apparent organizing logic, nor any systemic perspective. And even worse, the China-U.S. trade war has, according to the authors, absorbed bandwidth that could have been usefully deployed elsewhere.
The call for WTO reforms, by Simon J. Evenett and Johannes Fritz
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G20 Japan: Programme of Work to Develop a Consensus Solution to the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy
The digital transformation spurs innovation, generates efficiencies, and improves services while boosting more inclusive and sustainable growth and enhancing well-being. At the same time, the breadth and speed of this change introduce challenges in many policy areas, including taxation.
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G20 and the Sustainable Development Goals
This article discusses the issue of debt governance within the context of sustainable development and economic growth in the face of the G20 countries. The authors claim that current banking regulation innovations are not sufficient in terms of securing financial security and inclusiveness and assess the challenge to global financial security and sustainable growth posed by increasing governmental debt of the worldwide leading economies.
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International Trade Agreements and the Future of U.S. Economy
In this column, Chad Bown claims that it is a risky game to question the significance of international trade agreements as put forward by the Trump Administration as well as leaders from the Democratic Party. He elaborates on how trade agreements do work in favor of protecting the U.S. economy, American workers and consumers and how they are essential in terms of avoiding the same policy mistakes that led to the crisis of the 1930s.
Column: The truth about trade agreements – and why we need them
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Tax evasion and its link to social environment
Since the global financial crisis, many governments around the world have initiated policies against tax evasion and harmful tax avoidance. This article points out the deficiencies of poorly-designed tax schemes based on a dataset of employee reports within the Austrian commuter allowance scheme. The results show that there is a high level of misreporting, which, according to the authors, is systematically influenced by a taxpayer’s social environment and carries the potential of spillover effects on other groups of society.
Tax evasion and the social environment, by Jörg Paetzold and Hannes Winner