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27 June 2019, Gateway House

Gateway House on the G20

The 2019 G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28-29, is the 14th meeting of the Group of 20 leaders. The G20 is the world’s most influential economic multilateral forum. It is the agenda-setting forum that develops and guides rules of global economic governance. Under the Japanese Presidency, this summit will be the first to discuss and establish the rules for the worldwide governance of data, including current hot-button issues like data localisation and data sovereignty. India has both a preparatory and a contributory role to play in the G20 this year. For in 2022, it will be the President of the G20. India must identify its agenda early on; its a weighty responsibility but also an opportunity to set the global economic agenda.

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The 2019 G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28-29, is the 14th meeting of the Group of 20 leaders. The G20 is the world’s most influential economic multilateral forum. It is the agenda-setting forum that develops and guides rules of global economic governance. Under the Japanese Presidency, this summit will be the first to discuss and establish the rules for the worldwide governance of data, including current hot-button issues like data localisation and data sovereignty.

India has both a preparatory and a contributory role to play in the G20 this year. For in 2022, it will be the President of the G20. India must identify its agenda early on; its a weighty responsibility but also an opportunity to set the global economic agenda.

India’s G20 presidency in 2022

Preparing India for the G20 presidency in 2022
By , CEO and Director of Research & Analysis, Gateway House

Hosting the G20 Presidency in 2022 is a welcome challenge and a fitting aspiration for India. Preparations must begin now, with an immediate upgradation of domestic intellectual, administrative and physical infrastructure. Read more

Specific Policy Proposals to the G20

Mainstreaming Natural Capital Valuation
By , Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, , CEO & Director of Research & Analysis, and K.N. Vaidyanathan, Advisor & Adjunct Senior Fellow, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

In a policy brief for Japan’s G20 Presidency in 2019, Purvaja Modak, Akshay Mathur and K.N. Vaidyanathan discuss the need to encourage the development and adoption of processes and methods that can quantify the costs of using natural resourcesRead more

A global framework for tracing Beneficial Ownership
By K.N. Vaidyanathan, Advisor & Adjunct Senior Fellow, Geoeconomic Studies, Akshay Mathur, CEO & Director of Research & Analysis, and Purvaja Modak, Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

In a policy brief for Argentina’s G20 Presidency in 2018, K.N. Vaidyanathan, Akshay Mathur and Purvaja Modak discuss the challenge and propose policy recommendations for transparency in cross-border financial transactions. Read more

A decentralized, consumer-driven model for the solar eco-system
By Amit Bhandari, Fellow, Energy & Environment Studies, Akshay Mathur, CEO & Director of Research & Analysis, and Purvaja Modak, Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

The transition to renewable energy is hampered by the lack of suitable, affordable products and specialised financing for its infrastructure. This infographic, as part of a policy brief put forth by Gateway House, set to be tabled at the 2017 Hamburg G20 conference, outlines an ecosystem to overcome these hurdles. Read more

Measuring cross-border trade in services by trading partner country and company
By Akshay Mathur, CEO & Director of Research & Analysis, and Purvaja Modak, Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

In a policy brief for the G20, Akshay Mathur and Purvaja Modak discuss the challenge of data classification when it comes to cross-border trade in services. Read more

Analysis of G20’s work

LEI, a gold standard for financial transparency
By Purvaja Modak, Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

Ten years after the global financial crisis, some reform has come about. To further transparency, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), proposed by the G20, is a code used to identify the parties that participate in financial transactions around the world. While its benefits and applications are abundant and will reduce systemic vulnerability, its global implementation is complex and slow. This primer shows why – and also why the LEI should be urgently and widely adopted. Read more

G20’s midlife crisis
By Akshay Mathur, CEO and Director of Research & Analysis, Gateway House

The G20’s response to the economic crisis was effective, the expansion of its scope was logical. This week’s Summit in Argentina is an opportunity to build consensus and deliver on concrete economic policy design. Read more

T20 Mumbai Keynote by Dr. Rajan
By Raghuran Rajan, Distinguished Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, delivered the keynote address at India’s first Think20 (T20) meeting organised by Gateway House with TEPAV, on the “Global Economy and Challenges for Multilateral Policies.” He urged emerging markets like India to develop their own capacity to provide new ideas to the global financial system, “hold the pen” that will write a more inclusive agenda, and strengthen global multilateral institutions. Read more

T20: the policy and research advisory group of the G20

Reflections from T20 Tokyo
By Purvaja Modak, Researcher, Geoeconomic Studies, Gateway House

The Think20 Inception conference, held in Tokyo on December 4-5, 2018, kicked off the research process for 2019 for the leading think tanks from G20 countries that work on issues of global economic governance. The author participated in the conference as an observer. Read more

A Think20 rendezvous in Buenos Aires
By Akshay Mathur, CEO and Director of Research & Analysis, Gateway House

Think20, the official sub-forum of the G20 for think tanks with expertise in global economic governance, launched the research agenda for 2018 in Buenos Aires to support Argentina’s priorities for the year. Read more

T20: Thinking for G20
By Akshay Mathur, CEO and Director of Research & Analysis, Gateway House

The T20 Summit held in Beijing last week provided an opportunity for scholars, think tank representatives, and government officials to engage in meaningful discussion of global economic governance in preparation for the G20 summit in September. The summit’s organisers and participants are now taking greater steps to produce more tangible and relevant policy options for the consideration of states worldwide, in the context of fostering global good. Read more

Interviews with G20 officials

India, Japan@G20: quality infrastructure a priority

Japan hosts the 2019 G20 Osaka summit on June 28-29. India’s priorities at the G20 are similar to those of all developing countries, but it is significantly aligned with Japan in its emphasis on infrastructure, the silver economy and countering corruption, among others, says Suresh Reddy, Joint Secretary (Multilateral Economic Relations), ministry of external affairs, government of India, in this interview with Gateway House. Read more

Realising Japan’s G20 priorities

Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute, outlined some of the issues that will concern Japan, which is president of the G20 this year. He was in Mumbai for the India-Japan dialogue, organised by Gateway House recently. Read more | View the video

Toshinori Doi on regulating digital finance

Gateway House spoke to Toshinori Doi, President, Policy Research Institute, Japan, on the sidelines of the Gateway of India Geoeconomic Dialogue, on the risks associated with digitising finance, the Belt and Road Initiative and dealing with Chinese market dominance. Read more

Interview with India’s G20 Sherpa

Gateway House co-hosted the Think20 Mumbai meeting on 12 March 2018. It brought together prominent experts, academics and senior government representatives. In a series of interviews conducted by Gateway House during the conference, Shaktikanta Das, India’s G20 Sherpa, spoke on India’s role in the G20 process and its role in the multilateral institution. Read more

Japan’s G20 priorities

Solving global issues, such as climate change, working towards the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting free trade – these are some of Japan’s aims as president of the G20, says Hideki Asari, Charges d’Affaires ad Interim, Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, who was part of an India-Japan Dialogue organised by Gateway House recently. Read more | View the video

Previous T20 Roundtables hosted by Gateway House

Gateway House T20 2019
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Gateway House T20 2018
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Gateway House T20 2017
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Gateway House T20 2016
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