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06Jun2016EPF-IISD ROUNDTABLE: Driving Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Finance – Building Blocks and Bottlenecks in Emerging Economies
Insufficient infrastructure has been highlighted as a key impediment to sustainable economic development and prosperity in many countries. With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the establishment of a Global Infrastructure Forum in Addis Ababa and an Investment and Infrastructure Working Group within the G20, the international community seeks to improve international cooperation on closing the enormous investment and capacity gaps. A particular challenge consists in placing due focus on sustainable infrastructure, i.e. the development and implementation of projects that…
25Apr2016T20 Roundtable: International Development Financing System for Inclusive Growth. Partnership and Prosperity Issues in Developing Countries
By the time this year’s G20 Summit took place in Hangzhou, China, altogether eight official Think20 (T20) workshops have been held around the world as part of China’s G20 presidency. The T20 engagement group brings together leading think tanks which provide evidence-based recommendations for G20 decision-makers. During this year’s Chinese G20 Presidency, the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), together with two other Chinese think tanks, has been mandated to coordinate T20 activities.…
14Dec2015T20 Kick-Off Meeting
Members of the Economic Policy Forum participated in the T20 Kick-Off Meeting in Beijing at the start of the Chinese G20 presidency. The Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (IWEP, CASS) is in the lead of organizing the T20 process, jointly with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University (RDCY). During the meeting in Beijing, more than 500 delegates from international think tanks participated…
02Nov2015Think Week 2015: Sustainable Infrastructure Development
The Economic Policy Forum hosted this year’s Think Week on November 02 – 06, 2015, in Beijing, focusing on ‘Sustainable Infrastructure Development – Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Economies’. During two days of roundtable discussions issues such as incentivising investments, the role of the private sector for effective implementation, interregional corridors and quantifying sustainability were addressed. The workshop drew on the topic’s importance in the light of the 2030 Agenda, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and a new international Climate…
10Aug2015G20 Think Tank Summit
In preparation for the G20 presidency in 2016, the Renmin University for the third time hosted the G20 Think Tank Summit from July 30 to August 1 in Beijing. Organized by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY), and with Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) as co-organizers, the conference intended to gauge…
15Jul2015Roundtable on Financing Equitable & Effective Climate Action
In the lead-up to the negotiations at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), under the umbrella of the Economic Policy Forum (EPF), are organizing a series of round table policy dialogues in Paris, Dehli and New York, aiming to provoke a discussion among the influential members of the climate policy communities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe with the aim to build…
21May2015Seminar on Regional Integration and Value Chains at the BRICS Academic Forum 2015
In the run-up of the 7th BRICS Academic Forum in Moscow, members of the Economic Policy Forum met on 21 May 2015 at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, to discuss and finalize the first round of publications on current challenges of regional economic integration and the creation of sustainable global value chains. The event was co-organized and hosted by the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Higher School of Economics (HSE). In the first…
18May2015T20 Regional Seminar on Enhancing Innovation and International Technology Diffusion
EPF and TEPAV host Think20 Regional Seminar on Innovation and Technology Diffusion Experts agree on Key Messages and Recommendations for G20 Sherpas Under the umbrella of the Turkish Presidency of the G20, the Economic Policy Forum (EPF) and the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) hosted a Think-20 Regional Seminar on “Enhancing Innovation and International Technology Diffusion” in Berlin on 18 and 19 May 2015. Among the 50 participants from 20 countries were policy experts and analysts on innovation…