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Delivering economic value and societal cohesion through “Good Jobs”

Despite a sustained period of falling unemployment pre-pandemic, many workers across the G20 have been displaced from middle income employment into insecure, low income, poor-quality work. Compounded by the impact of COVID-19, this paucity of “good jobs” has both economic and societal impacts and contributes to distrust in institutions and … Read more

Governing diagnostics: Covid-19 and the G20

This policy brief stresses the importance of diagnostics as effective first-line defenses against the transmission of pandemic diseases such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). National governments cannot always be relied upon to ensure timely access to diagnostics during a pandemic. Hence, we propose the creation of a global coordinating platform … Read more

Fiscal sustainability and social cohesion in the face of demographic change

The Group of 20 (G20) countries are experiencing or starting to experience the impacts of demographic change on their economies. The reduced working population in the G20’s aging societies necessitates a social transition to maintain labor productivity and fiscal sustainability. Given this situation, this policy brief recommends four proposals to … Read more

The Socioeconomics of Pandemics Policy

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have provided a massive fiscal and monetary stimulus. While this policy is welcome in the short run, it does not address the underlying problem in the medium and long run. The reason is that the pandemic has not given rise … Read more

Recoupling Economic and Social Progress

This Policy Brief is offered to the Saudi T20 process, as a recommendation to the G20 in 2020. Many of the prominent challenges of the twenty-first century, including the current dissatisfaction of population groups who feel left behind by globalization and technological advance, may be viewed in terms of a … Read more

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