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G20 Japan 2019

Central Banks and the G20 Agenda: Ensuring Policy Coherence

TF2 - International Financial Architecture for Stability and Development/Crypto-Assets and FinTech
Policy area: International Finance and Economic Recovery
Alexander Barkawi (Council on Economic Policies), José Siaba Serrate (Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI), Buenos Aires (Argentina))
G7 Germany 2022

G7 Countries Must Urgently Phase Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Climate and Environment
Policy area: Climate, Energy and Environment
Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Christian von Haldenwang (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Ronald Steenblik (International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD))
G20 Brazil 2024

Improving Tax Expenditure Reporting To Enhance Tax Expenditure Policy Making

Reforming the international financial architecture
Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Paolo de Renzio (Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration of Fundacdo Getulio Vargas (FGV/EBAPE) (Brazil)), Santiago Díaz de Sarralde (Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT)), Amina Ebrahim (United Nations University), Hazel Granger (ODI (United Kingdom)), Christian von Haldenwang (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Kyle McNabb (0DI (Uganda)), Everlyn Muendo (Tax Justice Network Africa (TINA) (Kenya)), Chenai Mukumba (Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) (Kenya))
G20 Argentina 2018

Mend It, Don’t End It: The case for upgrading the G20’s pledge on protectionism

TF7 - Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Aki Tamura (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan), Axel Berger (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Carlos Primo Braga (Evian Group, IMD), Claudia Schmucker (German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)), Eduardo Bianchi (Escuela Argentina de Negocios – Instituto Universitario), Galina Kolev (Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW)), Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies), Jurgen Matthes (Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW)), Kamala Dawar (University of Sussex), M. Sait Akman (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)), Marcela Cristini (Foundation for Latin American Economic Research (FIEL)), Matthias Helble, Maximiliano Mendez-Parra (ODI Global), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen), Tu Xinquan (University of International Business and Economics, Beijing)
G20 Argentina 2018

Mitigating the Adjustment Costs of International Trade

TF7 - Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Andreas Freytag (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), Clara Brandi (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies), M. Sait Akman (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV)), Miriam Kautz (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena), Peter Draper (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Peter Rashish (AICGS – Johns Hopkins University), Rob Vos, Uri Dadush (Policy Center for the New South; Bruegel; University of Maryland)
G20 Japan 2019

Services Trade for Sustainable, Balanced, and Inclusive Growth

TF8 - Trade, Investment, and Globalization
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute), Carlos Primo Braga (Evian Group, IMD), Hamid Mamdouh (King & Spalding), J. Bradford Jensen (Georgetown University), Jane Drake-Brockman (Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide), Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies), Patrick Low (Asia Global Institute), Pierre Sauvé (The World Bank), Sherry Stephenson (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC))
G20 Indonesia 2022

Tax Expenditures And Female Labour Force Participation

TF5 - Inequality, Human Capital, and Well-Being
Policy area: Inequality, Human Capital and Well-being
Jacob Bastian (Rutgers University), Amina Ebrahim (United Nations University), Nora Lustig (Tulane University), Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne Law School)
G20 Argentina 2018

Tax expenditure and the treatment of tax incentives for investment

TF7 - Trade, Investment and Tax Cooperation
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Ariel Melamud (ASAP, Asociación Argentina de Presupuesto y Administración Financiera Pública), Christian von Haldenwang (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Jakob Schwab (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)), Lise Johnson (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCIS)), Mark Hallerberg (Hertie School), Ricardo Rozemberg (Centro de Investigación sobre Desarrollo Económico de América del Sur (iDeAS)), Santiago Díaz de Sarralde (Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations (CIAT))
G20 Japan 2019

Taxation in Aging Societies: Increasing the Effectiveness and Fairness of Pension Systems

TF10 - Aging Population and its Economic Impact + Immigration
Policy area: Inequality, Human Capital and Well-being
Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Mark Mazur (Tax Policy Center), Matthew Whittaker (Resolution Foundation), Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne Law School), Vincenzo Galasso
G20 Japan 2019

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

TF8 - Trade, Investment, and Globalization
Policy area: Digital Governance, Security and Connectivity
Dan Ciuriak (Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)), Fukunari Kimura (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)), Gabriela Rigoni (University of Buenos Aires, UBA), Johannes Schwarzer (Council on Economic Policies), Junji Nakagawa (University of Tokyo), Lurong Chen (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)), Richard Pomfret, Wallace Cheng (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE))
G20 Saudi Arabia 2020

Trade implications of tax expenditures

TF1 - Trade, Investment, and Growth
Policy area: Open Trade and Sustainable Investment
Agustin Redonda (Council on Economic Policies), Facundo Calvo (IELPO LL.M., University of Barcelona), Gilles Carbonnier (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Irma Mosquera Valderrama (Leiden University), Rahul Mehrotra (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Robert Koopman (World Trade Organization)

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