Commentary by Smita Srinivas, Co-Chair of Task Force 1 on Global Health and Covid-19. Originally published on IAI's website. A year and a half into the pandemic, industrial policies are reverting to a dangerous “normal”, aggravating the drivers of the pandemic and accelerating the same business models that arguably brought us to this crisis juncture. [...]
Download the T20 Statement in PDF This is the most important moment for Health in a century. More than 200 million people have had confirmed COVID-19, and more than 4.5 million people are known to have died of the disease worldwide, making COVID-19 the most consequential global pandemic since 1918. The actual health toll [...]
The GPF/Think20 (T20) Summit was held in Milan on October 4 – 6 2021. Policy makers and experts discussed multilateral challenges for the G20 and other multilateral fora: vaccines and health, climate and growth, international finance, trade and investments, digitalization, poverty and inequalities. This 3-day hybrid event was co-hosted by ISPI as the T20 National Coordinator and [...]
Official picture by G20 Italy Download the T20 - B20 Joint Statement in PDF Covid-19 has contributed to accelerating the digital transition and has multiplied its influence on our lives and societies. However, the benefits brought about by these changes are jeopardised by their own rapidity and by their corresponding inequalities. As estimated by [...]
Official picture by G20 Italy Download the T20 Statement in PDF Climate change, biodiversity loss and sustainable growth are long-standing global challenges. Today they are even more crucial, given the crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, which calls for making the much-needed recovery in the global economy compatible with action to meet, exceed [...]
After the pandemic, it is key to avoid that we move from the COVID-induced economic crisis to a new financial crisis. The T20, through its Task Force on International Finance, calls G20 Economy and Finance Ministers for a renewed commitment to address this challenge by designing, and swiftly implementing, policy measures aimed to support countries at risk of debt distress, involve the private sector in debt relief, create innovative facilities to ensure debt sustainability, get ready for the digital money revolution, give climate risk analysis the due relevance considering its impacts on the financial architecture, monitor central banks activities that have extraterritorial impacts, and ensure transparency in capital flows especially when it comes to activities by State-Owned Multinational Enterprises.
Preliminary findings and proposals by Task Force 10 on Migration Developing social protection strategies for asylum-seekers and migrants Ensuring that refugees have access to health care, income support, and suitable working and living conditions. In the short-term integrated approaches should be developed to include refugees in national protection systems to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 [...]
Preliminary findings and proposals by Task Force 8 on Multilateralism and Global Governance Reforming and relaunching existing multilateral institutions in a post-pandemic scenario The lack of an unambiguous definition and specific assessment of the “costs” (not only economic) of global inaction in the face of common challenges may lead to sub-optimal policy decisions. We suggest [...]
Preliminary findings and proposals by Task Force 7 on Infrastructure Investment and Financing Data and Infrastructure Limited availability and poor standardization of data and information is a key barrier to both private investments and the life-cycle efficiency of infrastructure projects. More precise and standardized data would help capital-planning decisions based on the expected performance of [...]
Preliminary findings and proposals by Task Force 6 on Social Cohesion and the Future of Welfare Systems Impact of the pandemic on poverty and social mobility The pandemic has increased poverty worldwide, created new inequalities overlapping with pre-existing ones and has reduced social mobility as the main social elevator got stuck between repeated school closures. [...]
