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TF8 - Trade, Investment, and Globalization

G20 Japan 2019

G20 Performance on Trade

Policy area: G20 Performance
Maria Marchyshyn (G20 Research Group, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto)
G20 Japan 2019

Repurposing our Economies – and our Businesses

Colm Kelly (PwC)
G20 Japan 2019

Toward Global Paradigm Change: Beyond the Crisis of the Liberal World Order

Policy area: Inequality, Human Capital and Well-being
Dennis J. Snower (Global Solutions Initiative Foundation)
G20 Japan 2019

Multilateralism with Multiple Layers and Strengthening the Base of National Capacity

Policy area: Inequality, Human Capital and Well-being
Hideaki Shiroyama
G20 Japan 2019

Reinvigorating the WTO as a Negotiating Forum

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Akihiko Tamura, Anabel Gonzalez (the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, and a consultant on trade and investment), Andreas Freytag (Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, University of Stellenbosch), Axel Berger (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Bernard Hoekman, Claudia Schmucker (German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)), David Laborde Debucquet (Markets, Trade and Institutions Division- International Food Policy Research Institute), Eduardo Bianchi, Gabriel Felbermayr (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Jean Dong (Australia-China Belt and Road Initiative), Junji Nakagawa, Manjiao Chi, Mark Wu, Sabyasachi Saha (Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)), Sandra Rios, Uri Dadush
G20 Japan 2019

The Crisis in World Trade

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Akihiko Tamura, Anabel Gonzalez (the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, and a consultant on trade and investment), Carlos Primo Braga, Fukunari Kimura (Keio University, ERIA), Junji Nakagawa, M. Sait Akman (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)), Peter Rashish, Shiro Armstrong, Uri Dadush
G20 Japan 2019

The Digital Economy for Economic Development: Free Flow of Data and Supporting Policies

Policy area: Digital Governance, Security and Connectivity
Dan Ciuriak (CIGI), Fukunari Kimura (Keio University, ERIA), Gabriela Rigoni, Johannes Schwarzer, Junji Nakagawa, Lurong Chen, Richard Pomfret, Wallace Cheng
G20 Japan 2019

Reforming the WTO AB: Short-term and Mid-term Options for DSU Reform, and Alternative Approaches in a Worst Case Scenario

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Carlos Coelho, Christopher Findlay (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Hugo Perezcano Diaz, Junji Nakagawa, Keith William Cameron Wilson, Manjiao Chi, Peter Draper (Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia), Tsuyoshi Kawase
G20 Japan 2019

Expanding and Restructuring Global Value Chains for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
M. Sait Akman (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)), Natalya Volchkova, Sabyasachi Saha (Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)), Takashi Hattori, Yasuyuki Todo
G20 Japan 2019

Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Bernard Hoekman, Carlos Primo Braga, Hamid Mamdouh, J. Bradford Jensen, Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Johannes Schwarzer, Patrick Low, Pierre Sauvé, Sherry Stephenson (PECC Taskforce on Services)
G20 Japan 2019

Towards G20 Guiding Principles on Investment Facilitation for Sustainable Development

Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Ahmad Ghouri, Axel Berger (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Karl P. Sauvant (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University), Matthew Stephenson (World Economic Forum), Tomoko Ishikawa

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