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THINK 20 Japan 2019 — The research and policy advice network for the G20

In 2019, the T20 is convening in Japan under its G20 presidency. Together, the world’s leading think tanks will generate innovative policy recommendations to help G20 Leaders address pressing global challenges and deliver more inclusive, sustainable growth for all.

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Policy Briefs

Task Force 1: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, the Group of Twenty (G20) have sought effective means of implementing the SDGs using various frameworks and fora such as the G20 Action Plan on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the G20 Development Working Group (DWG).

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Deliberate next steps toward a new globalism for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
2 Transforming education towards equitable quality education to achieve the SDGs
3 Early childhood development education and care: the future is what we build today
4 Developing National Agendas in Order to Achieve Gender Equality in Education (SDG 4)
5 Measuring Transformational Pedagogies Across G20 Countries to Achieve Breakthrough Learning: The Case for Collaboration
6 Teacher professional skills: key strategies to advance in better learning opportunities
7 Sustainable Financing for Development
8 Scaling Up Business Impact on the SDGs
9 Leveraging Science, Technology and Innovation for Implementing the 2030 Agenda
10 A Gendered Perspective on Changing Demographics: Implications for Labour, Financial and Digital Equity
11 Women’s Economic Empowerment: Strengthening Public and Private Sector Impact through Accountability and Measurement (SDG 5)

Task Force 2: International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development/Crypto-assets and Fintech

Task Force 2 (TF2) aims to promote an international financial architecture for stability and development, with a focus on Crypto-assets and Fintech.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Capital Flows and International Financial Architecture
2 Turning Sustainable Finance into Mainstream Finance
3 Regulation of crypto-asset exchanges and the necessity of international cooperation
4 Strengthening the International Monetary Fund for Stability and Sustainable Development
5 Monetary policy and Financial System Resilience
6 The Macroprudential Policy Framework Needs to Be Global
7 Designing a governance framework for the global financial systems – Regulations and Promotion
8 Fintech and Distributed Ledger Technology: Issues and Challenges Beyond Crypto Assets
9 Forming a cohesive fintech agenda for the G20
10 Review of Fintech Strategies for Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
11 Forming a G20 fintech association forum to broker international partnerships promoting financial inclusion in developing and emerging economies
12 Central Banks and the G20 Agenda. Ensuring Policy Coherence
13 Mind the gap: Making Basel standards work for developing countries
14 Mainstreaming Natural Capital Valuation

Task Force 3: Climate Change and Environment

The international community adopted the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for the SDGs in 2015. Today, the priority is how to implement these commitments.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Strengthened Actions towards Decarbonised and Climate Resilient Society
2 Six Proposals for Future Policies towards Circular Economy and Society
3 Biodiversity – A Key Source of Technological Innovation
4 Potential of Various Renewable Energy and Its Introduction Policy in Southeast Asia
5 Promotion of Constructing Zero Carbon Society: Effectiveness of Quantitative Evaluation of Technology and System for Sustainable Economic Development
6 Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Countries: Promoting the New Paradigm
7 Policies and Practices to Enable Business Models for Resource Efficiency and a Circular Economy
8 Addressing Critical Issues for Building Climate Resilient Infrastructure
9 Investing in Climate Change Mitigation: A G20 Action Plan for Upscaling Private Sector Contributions
10 Delivering National Climate Action Through Decarbonized Cities

Task Force 4: Economic Effects of Infrastructure Investment and its Financing

Infrastructure is crucially important to foster countries’ economic development and prosperity. Investments in infrastructure contributes to higher productivity and growth, facilitates trade and connectivity, and promotes economic inclusion.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 The Infrastructure Nexus: From the Future of Infrastructures to the Infrastructures of the Future
2 Infrastructure Investment Needs and Sources of Financing
3 Pursuing Quality of Infrastructure for Sustainable Growth
4 Building resilient infrastructure systems
5 Quality Infrastructure Investment and the way to increase the rate of return from infrastructure investments
6 Sustainable Infrastructure to Secure the Natural Capital of the Amazon
7 Disaster Mitigation Social Resilience: From Human Being to Infrastructure
8 Economic Effects of Infrastructure Investment from the land-based financing system
9 Global Targets on Drinking Water
10 Policy and Institutional Framework for Delivering on Sustainable Infrastructure

Task Force 5: Cooperation with Africa

African countries still face various development challenges such as fiscal and debt management, agricultural development, and the problem of food security, as well as the need to strengthen the competitiveness of industries.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Fiscal and Debt Sustainability in Africa
2 G20 Compact with Africa
3 Industrial Development and ICT in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward
4 Linking Smallholder Production with Value-Added Food Markets
5 Sustainable Prevention of Food Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
6 Tax Challenges of Digitalization in Africa

Task Force 6: Social Cohesion, Global Governance and the Future of Politics

Task Force 6 deals with the unprecedented crisis in multilateralism at the global level, disruption of social cohesion at the domestic level, how nations could address these issues, and what the future of politics should look like.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Promoting Unity of Corporate Governance with Global Governance and Social Governance: Demanding Commitment from Corporate Businesses on Sustaining Stable Social Foundation
2 Toward Global Paradigm Change: Beyond the Crisis of the Liberal World Order
3 Bringing the Public’s Voice into Debates about the Future of Politics and Global Governance
4 Maintaining Social Cohesion through Democratic Liberalism
5 Improving Future Ocean Governance – Governance of Global Goods in an Age of Global Shifts
6 Regional Trade Blocs as Supporting Structures in Global Governance
7 Technology Can Help To Right Technology`s Social Wrongs: Elements For a New Social Compact For Digitalisation
8 The Urban-Rural Divide and Regionally Inclusive Growth in the Digital Age
9 Decoupling and Social Arrest: The Way Forward
10 Civil Society and the G20: Towards a Review of Regulatory Models and Approaches
11 Multilateralism with Multiple Layers and Strengthening the Base of National Capacity
12 Rules-based Global Governance at Risk: Challenges of US Unilateralism and US-China Superpower Competition
13 The G20 in Face of Politicization: Avoiding or Embracing Contestation?
14 The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from digital slavery
15 Improving Immigrants’ Integration in Host Countries

Task Force 7: The Future of Work and Education for the Digital Age

Several major technological transformations (e.g., artificial intelligence or AI, fintech, the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0) are putting the global economy on a new track.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Fostering Human Dimension of the Digital Education
2 Industrialization and Growth in Digital Age: Disruptions and Opportunities for Employment Led Growth in Asia and Africa
3 The Need to Promote Digital Financial Literacy for the Digital Age
4 Lifelong Learning and Education Policies to Capture Digital Gains
5 Transformation of Economic and Social Institutions for a New Era of Self-employment in High-income Countries
6 Rethinking Pathways to Employment: Technical and Vocational Training for The Digital Age
7 Delivering Workforce Productivity Growth
8 Bridging the Gap Between Digital Skills and Employability for Vulnerable Populations
9 Leaving No One Behind: Measuring the Multidimensionality of Digital Literacy in the Age of AI and other Transformative Technologies
10 The reskilling effort to bring the fourth industrial revolution to Latin America
11 How to Promote Worker Wellbeing in the Platform Economy in the Global South
12 New Opportunities in the Platform Economy: On-ramps to Formalization in the Global South

Task Force 8: Trade, Investment and Globalization

The world trading system is facing various challenges such as rising protectionism, unequal opportunities to engage in global value chains, and legal systems that are ill-equipped for digital trade and international trade in services.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 The Crisis in World Trade
2 Reinvigorating the WTO as a Negotiating Forum
3 Reforming the WTO AB: Short-term and mid-term options for DSU reform, and alternative approaches in a worst case scenario
4 The Digital Economy for Economic Development: Free Flow of Data and Supporting Policies
5 Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth
6 Expanding and Restructuring Global Value Chains for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
7 Towards G20 Guiding Principles on Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development

Task Force 9: SME Policy faced with Development of Financial Technology

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than half of formal employment globally and are crucial for stimulating improvements in productivity.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Digital innovation can improve financial access for SMEs
2 Promoting SME R&D and Innovation
3 Fostering greater SME participation in a globally integrated economy
4 Promoting support for Start-ups
5 Promoting investment in human capital and labor mobility: Making the entrepreneurial economy work
6 Business transfer as an engine for SME growth

Task Force 10: Aging Population and its Economic Impact + Immigration

The rising trend of aging societies, a result of decreased fertility rates and longer life expectancies, signals drastic changes in the world’s demographic structure, as Asia clearly demonstrates.

PB # Title of Policy Brief
1 Macroeconomic impacts and macroeconomic policies in aging societies
2 Fostering prosperity – investment and demographic transition
3 Taxation in aging society – increasing the effectiveness and fairness of pension systems
4 Role of innovative policies in incentivizing women’s labor force participation – A response to trends in aging population
5 Work capacity and socially sustainable public pension system in aging societies
6 Supporting sustainable and effective social security system development in aging developing countries
7 Use evidence-based medicine to raise the productivity of healthcare in aging populations
8 Role of G20 in designing immigration policies to support population aging
9 Investment in social capital as a solution for population aging
10 Financial literacy, incentives, and innovation to deal with population aging
11 Aging population and its Impact on fiscal sustainability
12 Aging, fiscal sustainability and adequacy of social security systems