Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Session 1: Energy, Climate, Growth -- Chair: Jayant Sinha -- Speakers: Jessica Seddon, Robert Stavins, Arunabha Ghosh -- Session 2: Technology, Policy, Jobs -- Chair: Sachin Chaturvedi -- Speakers: Paul Samson, Albert van Jaarsveld, Debjani Ghosh --...

Key figures on the EU in the world provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It's structured into 3 chapters: people and society, the economy and trade, and the environment and natural resources. This publication complements 2 of Eurostat's...

Key figures on the EU in the world provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It's structured into 3 chapters: people and society, the economy and trade, and the environment and natural resources. This publication complements 2 of Eurostat's...

Remittances are a lifeline for many households in low and middle income countries (LMICs), and have emerged as an important source of external financing for sustainable development. With over 800 million people dependent on remittances worldwide, their importance for developing and least...

The transition to a low-carbon economy requires significant investments in green technologies and infrastructure. Despite growing demand for sustainable finance, investment barriers persist, hindering the flow of capital towards environmentally sustainable projects. Building on a literature...

In the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, rural women agripreneurs encounter ongoing structural challenges in accessing formal finance, securing land rights, and gaining leadership roles, despite their vital contribution to agriculture and food security. This research combines a thematic...

While uncertainty shocks affect equity markets at various investment horizons, knowledge about the causal effects of uncertainty and equity markets in the frequency domain is scant among the Group of Twenty (G20) countries regarded as systemically important economies. This paper explores the...

The EU's position within the G20 across various dimensions of socioeconomic development has changed since the turn of the 21st century. This policy brief analyses trends in human development, labour market participation, digital adoption and environmental sustainability among the G20 members to...

The EU's position within the G20 across various dimensions of socioeconomic development has changed since the turn of the 21st century. This policy brief analyses trends in human development, labour market participation, digital adoption and environmental sustainability among the G20 members to...

This progress report to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors provides an update on the Basel Committee's analytical work on the 2023 banking turmoil. It includes updated empirical analysis on a range of liquidity-related issues highlighted by the turmoil, including distressed...

This working paper identifies the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender and various determinants. It is a preliminary version of a forthcoming UNESCO/ Kyushu University Urban Institute Inclusive Wealth Report 2023 chapter. It focuses on five...

This paper reviews and updates the indicator system constructed by previous scholars. The update of the index includes: Firstly, the latest data of 2021 is added to the original data of 1990-2020. Secondly, the World Bank's indicator system has been restructured and optimized, for example by...

This review considers the impact of various indicators, especially green finance, on green growth within the G-20 framework. Quantile regression results used as the analysis method showed that green growth was statistically significantly and positively affected by green finance. In addition to...

The present study assesses how governance affects information and communication technology (ICT) at the global level contingent on macroeconomic policy factors such as trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), manufacturing value added, and agricultural value added. The study focuses on 183...

This paper uses export and import shares of intermediate goods to assess the extent of integration of G20 and non-G20 nations, including least developed countries (LDCs), in global value chains (GVCs). The G20's intermediate trade, especially the imports, recovered fast during and immediately...

Previous studies examined sustainability-innovation and banking-innovation linkages separately. This research addresses that gap by jointly analyzing the relationships between environmental sustainability, five banking performance metrics, and technology innovation in G20 nations from 1990 to...

This publication provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It is structured into three parts: people and society, economy and trade, and environment and natural resources. It complements information found in two of Eurostat's flagship...

This publication provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It is structured into three parts: people and society, economy and trade, and environment and natural resources. It complements information found in two of Eurostat's flagship...

This Brief first seeks to understand India's international and domestic motivations in pursuing such an active G20 presidency. It further looks at how the Indian regime is seeking to propagate its own civilisational worldviews while pursuing a transactional foreign policy. For the purpose of...

The G20, or Group of Twenty, is an international forum consisting of the world's 20 largest economies, including the European Union. Established in 1999, the G20's main aim is to promote international economic cooperation and coordination. The G20 meets annually at a summit attended by heads of...

The UN and the European Commission have revised downward the global GDP growth estimate to 3.1–3.2% in 2022, a decrease compared with the IMF outlook released in April (3.6%). The economic growth outlooks for China and the US in 2022 were lowered to 4.2–4.6% and 2.4–2.9%, respectively. At...

The influence of recent global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war on the variability of major macroeconomic trends not only shows synchronized behavior across economies but also induces similar policy responses to counter these shocks. The purpose of this article...

The COVID-19 situation has accelerated the adoption of e-commerce across the world. While, globally, there has been an increase in the share of e-commerce in total retail sales, there are variations in e-commerce adoption across countries and the difference is obtrusive when one compares...

Global economic growth rates keep slowing down with economic outlooks getting worse. In August, Moody’s lowered projections of G20’s growth rates to 2.5% in 2022. By Moody’s estimates, the eurozone will be facing recession in 2023. The factors affecting the economic situation include an...

The G20 representing the world’s major developed and developing countries is witnessing a troika for the very first time of developing countries—Indonesia, India, and Brazil. India at the helm of the G20 presidency can strengthen its ties while shouldering the responsibility to lead the...

This policy paper examines how Turkey and the G-20 can help change the nature of global problem against the backdrop of the Turkish Lira crisis in which global trade and the resilience of the global financial and geopolitical system stands as the primary issue. The Turkish lira crisis which...

The 2023 Global Opportunity Index (GOI) report focuses on the Emerging Middle-Income G20 countries. The GOI rankings of the 124 countries considered this year are published on our interactive website. Five years after the first GOI report focusing on Emerging G20 countries, the 2023 GOI report...