Global Tables on Policy Responses to COVID-19
At the core of the Digital Global Solutions Summit are Global Tables, each tackling the T20 and G20 agenda as well as generating policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Tables are filled with keynotes, discussions, interviews and impulse statements by high-ranking representatives from research, politics, business and civil society.
The far-reaching measures enacted by most countries worldwide to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have massive consequences for the economies. The situation affects almost every enterprise, regardless of whether it caters local communities or the global economy. The effects spread across countries as tightly knit global production networks are interrupted. Countries have different capacities to absorb the shock and counter it with fiscal policy. Not only the nature of a pandemic is global as it does not stop at borders; the tight integration of the world economy make the economic fall-out a global challenge to solve. The G20, as flexible forum of the world’s richest and most powerful countries, has a major role in stabilising the world economy: in coordinating fiscal and monetary responses, in helping developing country partners to manage the crisis, and in giving guidance and vision in these challenging times. Can the G20 live up to this task?
Peter Altmaier
German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
What can the G20 do to foster international economic cooperation to overcome the COVID-19 crisis and to restore economic growth?
Paolo Magri
ISPI, Italy
Irene Natividad
Global Summit of Women
David Sloan Wilson
Binghamton University, USA
Panel
Jean Pisani-Ferry
European University Institute
Moderator: Sabine Christiansen
Journalist & Media Entrepreneur
Panel
Paola Subacchi
Queen Mary University of London
Sean Cleary
Future World Foundation & Global Solutions Initiative Special Advisor
Henrietta Moore
University College London
COVID-19: What can the G20 do to support the Fight against Pandemics in a Globalized World?
World Health Summit (WHS) Global Table
The COVID 19 pandemic has once again shown that we need everyone to get involved in a massive effort to keep the world safe. Researchers are working at high speed to understand new viruses, develop treatments and vaccines to curb pandemics and prevent future outbreaks. With COVID-19 new forms of collaboration have emerged for scientists around the world to share results much faster than during any previous outbreaks. With leadership by the G20 and the World Health Organization (WHO), science and other actors crucial for global health have to take a collective and non-discriminative responsibility to support such a form of global governance.
Elhadj As Sy
Kofi Annan Foundation
Panel
Christian Drosten
Charité, Germany
Panel
Ilona Kickbusch
World Health Summit
Panel
David Loew
Sanofi Pasteur, Switzerland
Panel
Moderator:
Sabine Christiansen
Journalist & Media Entrepreneur
The Social and Economic Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Risks and Opportunities for the Global South
Partner Global Table: Curated and produced by Women’s Economic Imperative
In this final decade for realizing the Sustainable Development Goals and in light of the yet unfolding economic and social impacts of the pandemic, it essential to take a multi-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the response and recovery discussions aimed at identifying strategic pathways for our global, national, and regional leaders. The key objective of this session is to help articulate the perspectives of the Global South on the immediate issues, risks and consequences of the current and future pandemics, broadly defined, within the G20 member countries and across the Global South. This discussion is important, as we work on policy responses to address the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 and other emerging pandemics.
This Global Table will address key issues, propose solutions, and draw on lessons of experience where relevant. The multi-disciplinary panel of experts and leaders will discuss the social and economic impacts of the pandemic as well as policy solutions in the following areas: Health as a global public good; social cohesion, macroeconomic resilience, and microeconomic impacts; and social and economic resilience and the importance of a gender lens.
Charity Ngilu
Kitui County Governor, Kenya
Moderator:
Margo Thomas
Women’s Economic Imperative; Global Solutions Fellow
Panel
Yonette Thomas
Women’s Economic Imperative
Decision-Making for Governments and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Why we need a new Office for Global Risk Preparedness
Partner Global Table: Curated and produced by CRUISSE Network and the UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty
Policy-making is best understood as enacted in contexts of uncertainty and complexity rather than as a lottery. Radical uncertainty arises when you cannot quantify which factors are going to influence the future in what way and you may not know what the consequences of interventions are, or perhaps even where and when you can intervene. And in this situation you are not be the only one in a state of radical uncertainty, because everybody else is as well.
This is the context we are all in today with COVID-19, so the lack of global preparedness and often slow response to COVID-19 is a case study of the consequences of spending too much time discussing good decision-making as if it’s like lottery choice and too little time learning to be “attentive” to human strengths and weaknesses in coping with Radical Uncertainty. This panel explores how to think and to make better policy under radical uncertainty discusses both a proposal to create an independent Office for Global Risk Preparedness to help us mitigate pandemic and similar global threats in future, and the need to reform university curricula to get real.
Gerd Gigerenzer
Harding Center for Risk Literacy
Panel
Jürgen Jost
Max Planck Institute
Panel
Leonard Smith
London School of Economics
Panel
David Tuckett
University College London
Panel
Moderator:
Margaret Heffernan
Author
Policy Recommendations, Policy Briefs and Articles
Policy Briefs on COVID-19
Policy Briefs contain recommendations and visions and cover policy ares that are of interest to G20 policymakers. The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding T20 Task Force.
C20 Statement to the G20 Joint Meeting of Ministers of Finance & Health
By the Civil 20 Engagement Group
The US excess mortality rate from Covid-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s
By Janine Aron (Institute for New Economic Thinking), John Muellbauer (Institute for New Economic Thinking)
A Bretton Woods Moment: Crafting the World We Want – And Our Children Deserve
By Seán Cleary (FutureWorld Foundation)
Rebuild after the crisis on three pillars: Equity, security and sustainability
By Seán Cleary (FutureWorld Foundation)
Reinvigorating multilateral cooperation during the COVID crisis
By Dennis Görlich, Juliane Stein-Zalai (IfW-Kiel)
Fundamental Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Dennis J. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative)
To ease the health-wealth trade-off, reallocate digital property rights
By Dennis J. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative)
A Coordinated, Unlimited and Flexible Insurance Policy to Respond to the Pandemic
By Gonzalo García-Andrés (Elcano Royal Institute)
Supply and Demand Shocks in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Industry and Occupation Perspective
By Anton Pichler, François Lafond, J. Doyne Farmer, R. Maria del Rio-Chanona, Penny Mealy (University of Oxford – Institute for New Economic Thinking)
The Coronavirus as a Yardstick of Global Health Policy
By Félix Arteaga (Elcano Royal Institute)
Networks and Technologies to Assist the Vulnerable During the Pandemic
By Matthias Helble and Paul Vandenberg (ADBI)
Geopolitical symptoms of COVID-19: Narrative battles within the Eastern Partnership
By Mihai-Razvan Corman (Bertelsmann Stiftung) and Eliana Coraci (Bertelsmann Stiftung)
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Government vs. Community Action Across the United States
By Adam Brzezinski, Guido Deiana, Valentin Kecht and David Van Dijcke (University of Oxford – The Institute for New Economic Thinking)
Infrastructure for Growth Post COVID-19
By Alberto Belladonna (ISPI) and Alessandro Gili (ISPI)
COVID-19 and the Crisis of National Development
By Cobus van Staden (SAIIA)
Coronavirus: economic threat, political response and implications
By Federico Steinberg (Elcano Royal Institute)
The fiscal response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus
By Julia Anderson, Enrico Bergamini, Sybrand Brekelmans, Aliénor Cameron, Zsolt Darvas, Marta Domínguez Jíménez (Bruegel)
What Can We Do to Manage the Economic Consequences of COVID-19?
By Fatih Özatay, Güven Sak (TEPAV)
The coronavirus pandemic and US consumption
By John Muellbauer (VoxEU)
How Covid-19 Could be Like the Global Financial Crisis (or worse)
By Nora Lustig and Jorge Mariscal (IPSP)
A crisis in times of crisis: Combating COVID-19 under sanctions in Iran?
By Sonali Chowdhury, Anna-Katharina Jacobs & Kathrin Kamin (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
COVID, remobilisation and the ‘stringency possibility corridor’: Creating wealth while protecting health
By Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute Geneva)
Mitigating the work-security trade-off while rebooting the economy
By Tito Boeri (INPS), Alessandro Caiumi (Bocconi University) & Marco Paccagnella (OECD)
Will COVID-19 Remake the World?
By Dani Rodrik (Harvard University – Kennedy School of Government)
The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
By Sean McDonald (CIGI)
The RSA Emergency Basic Income scheme: Cash now for the self-employed
By Anthony Painter, Alan Lockey, Fabian Wallace-Stephens (RSA)
Housing and Coronavirus: Responding at Scale
By Hannah Webster (RSA)
Coronavirus: Respond at scale, build bridges to the future
By Anthony Painter (RSA)
It Is Time To Think Differently About Health
By Sandro Galea (School of Public Health, Boston University)
We need a national conversation about health — not just about health care
By Sandro Galea (School of Public Health, Boston University)
COVID-19 Calls for a Marshall Plan for Health
By Sandro Galea (School of Public Health, Boston University)
COVID-19: Lockdown exit strategies for Africa
By Stephen Karingi (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)
COVID-19 in Africa: Protecting Lives and Economies
By Stephen Karingi (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa)
COVID-19 and Latin America
By Fernando Filgueria (Universidad de la República, Urugua)
Awakening in the post-pandemic world
Contributions by the Young Global Changers
Ninety young people from around the world were selected to participate in the Global Solutions Summit as Young Global Changers. These young changemakers from academica, business and civil society will contribute and debate in their various working groups on the Summit topics.
Statement Video on Policy Responses to COVID-19 by the 2020 YGCs
Take a look at the video with statements and questions by the YGC Working Group on Policy Responses to COVID-19.
Young Global Changers in Times of COVID-19
Blog Article by the Young Global Changers Ambassadors
Related Projects by the 2020 YGCs
The Young Global Changers work on projects and initiatives that are pushing for change.
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Themes
Sessions focus on the G20 and T20 agenda and also address the political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Underlying all topics is the narrative on Recoupling.
Program
Global Tables shape the program of this Summit. With a specific focus within a topic area they consist of keynotes and panel discussions, supplemented by vision statements. Participants are invited to contribute to the contents.
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