What is the T20 ?
The Think 20 (T20) is a key forum that unites global think tanks and policy experts to address pressing economic challenges through research-based recommendations for the Group of Twenty (G20), an international forum consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, representing the world’s largest economies. Recent summits have focused on urgent issues such as climate change, sustainable development, the digital economy, global health, and inclusive growth.
To tackle these themes, T20 organizes task forces of experts who develop actionable insights and foster collaboration among governments, the private sector, and civil society. Their influential policy briefs shape G20 discussions and inform national policies, ensuring that expert insights reach decision-makers.
The T20 emphasizes ongoing dialogue and follow-up to ensure recommendations lead to tangible outcomes, monitoring their integration into G20 agendas and national strategies for lasting impact.
Our Involvement in T20 Summits
The Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) actively participates in the T20, offering a unique perspective from the Global South. Our Think Thank engages in task forces focused on sustainable development, climate resilience, and inclusive growth, advocating for equitable policies. By facilitating partnerships among diverse stakeholders, PCNS enhances the T20's capacity to address complex global issues effectively, ensuring that the voices of the New South are included in policy discussions.
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September 26, 2024This paper was originally published on t20brasil.org The developing world is once again facing unsustainable sovereign debt levels that threaten to erase several years of progress on development agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, and high interest rates are the latest in a series of events that have contributed to the recent build-up of debt and raised the cost of debt financing for developing countries. The G20’s Common Framework (CF) for debt treatments is a w ...
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AuthorsSeptember 25, 2024This paper was originally published on t20brasil.org In a global context marked by unprecedented economic and environmental challenges, Africa stands at a crossroads. The rapid rise in public debt, coupled with the climate emergency, imposes a dual constraint on the continent's countries, severely limiting their ability to pursue sustainable development and mitigate the effects of climate change. This critical situation calls for innovative and effective solutions capable of tra ...
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AuthorsSeptember 24, 2024This paper was originally published on t20brasil.org The resurgence of Neo protectionism as a reality is creating a pressing need to establish New Industrial Policies (NIPs) capable of striking a balance between Global Value Chains (GVC) managers' quest for efficiency and policy makers' need for more increasing resilience or national security in a turmoiled geopolitical landscape. Furthermore, although NIPs might pursue legitimate non-economic objectives, they are often captured ...
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August 10, 2023"GVCs, Resilience, and Efficiency: Enhancing Trade and Industrial Policy Design and Coordination" - a paper co-authored by Otaviano Canuto, Mahmoud Arbouch, Pepe Zhang, and Abdelaaziz Ait Ali. This paper, accepted by the T20 community, delves into the challenges confronting the global e...
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AuthorsJuly 5, 2023This policy brief was originally published on t20ind.org Despite the perception of abundant financial resources and technology worldwide, building quality project pipelines of sustainable infrastructure and securing funding for them remains a challenge for most developing countries. One potential solution to these obstacles is international cooperation among governments through enhancing cooperation among their national, regional, and multilateral development banks, which alread ...
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AuthorsJune 26, 2023The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have reignited the debate on efficiency versus resilience in international trade and global value chains (GVCs). This policy brief[a] (i) explains the contrasting perspectives of the private sector (primarily seeking efficiency) and the public sector (aiming for resilience); (ii) demonstrates that GVCs are still flourishing, despite some mounting signals of a geo-fragmentation leading to greater reallocation of the GVCs; and (iii) provide ...
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June 20, 2023This policy brief was originally published on T20 India website A decade of poor growth, increased poverty, and political instability followed the serious debt difficulties that emerged worldwide in the 1980s. There are concerns that the looming debt crisis could create similar challenges and result in even more severe consequences. However, the current economic climate differs in many ways from that of the 1980s, when international banks and Paris Club creditors held most of th ...
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AuthorsJune 20, 2023This policy brief was originally published on T20 India website Supportive policies for tropical agriculture have helped millions of small-scale farmers in Brazil step out of poverty by improving government capacity to design legal frameworks to strengthen agricultural production and family farming. Scientific and technological developments have enabled small-scale Brazilian farmers to produce food while considering local tropical conditions. In contrast, tropical agriculture s ...
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AuthorsMehmet Sait AkmanBozkurt AranLeonardo BorliniCarlos A. Primo BragaFernando De MateoAlejandro JaraDouglas LippoldtOctober 7, 2021The first two decades of this millennium were marked by major political, economic and geopolitical disruptions. This has led many analysts to predict that the world economy is entering a phase of “deglobalization” – that is, a retreat from the globalization process. This policy brief discusses how “deglobalization” affects the role and relevance of international trade institutions and agreements. The basic message is that investing in the improvement of the rules-based multilateral ...
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AuthorsSeptember 29, 2021In order to close the financing gap in green technologies, finding new mechanisms to enhance the participation of the private sector, combined with that of the public sector, in financing sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure is a must. In this context, some unlisted instruments are going to be needed to enhance financing of green infrastructure. Besides, the development of properly structured projects, with risks and returns in line with the preferences of the different ...
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AuthorsRaffaele Della CroceAlessandro GiliAlin HorjMurat KenanoğluCarlo SecchiSeptember 29, 2021Changes in global value chains and reshoring trends brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic represent an opportunity for sustainable and inclusive economic development of the Mediterranean region. While the region has increased its participation in trade and global value chains, it remains below its potential due to limited connectivity and the lack of adequate investment in infrastructures. To boost competitiveness and attract near-shoring investments, an upgrade of the Mediterranea ...
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AuthorsOctober 15, 2020It is only recently that the international community has begun referring to tackling the root causes of migration. The importance of job creation has emerged as one of the key ways to convince young people to stay in their countries of origin. However, solely creating jobs is insufficient if the jobs are vulnerable and do not pay decent wages. This policy brief provides recommendations on priority areas to ensure decent living conditions in origin countries. These priorities include ...
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AuthorsOctober 2, 2020Africa’s infrastructure investment gap has widened over time. Addressing the mismatch between developed countries’ “global savings glut” and African countries’ “investment dearth” might be a win-win. To facilitate that matching, some risk mitigation tools can be used. In this brief, we propose that by providing such risk mitigation tools, development institutions and governments can crowd-in private investment rather than crowd them out by providing full financing. This article was ...
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AuthorsMohammed Al DoghanMuhammad BhattiCarlos BragaAbdulelah DarandaryAnabel GonzálezNiclas PoitiersSeptember 15, 2020Diversification is important because it is associated with economic growth and reduced volatility. Diversification of exports, which provide foreign exchange and enable imports of critical goods, services, and know-how, is crucial for developing countries. The question we address in this brief is how export diversification is affected by trade policies, including multilateral rules, regional trade agreements, and national measures. The record on diversification is poor across a larg ...
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AuthorsT20 expertsMay 28, 2019The world trading system has been remarkably successful in many respects but is presently under tremendous strain. The causes are deep-seated and require a strategic response. The future of the system depends critically on reinvigorating the WTO and policy change in the largest trading nations. Important measures are required to sustain the multilateral trading system, and urgent action is needed to avoid a scenario where the system fragments. The worst scenarios will disrupt global ...