Как и в рамках предыдущих саммитов, кроме Вашингтона и Лондона, члены «Группы двадцати» не смогли согласовать амбициозные цели по расширению торговли и...

Health is an indispensable public good. At the national level it has been manifested in the BRICS governments' commitment to scale up health financing, though to a different degree. At the global level it is evidenced by the international community progress on the three health-related Millennium...

Economic inequality is increasing both within and across countries. Growing inequality has negative economic, social and political consequences, it constrains economic growth, undermines social cohesion and political stability. Eradicating causes of inequality and turning structural barriers to...

Dialogue between the Group of 20 (G20) and the Business 20 (B20) should be instrumental in enhancing G20 efficiency both by responding to business interests and concerns and by engaging the private sector in generating growth and jobs. The B20 was first initiated by the Canadian Council of Chief...

The 2014 Australian presidency took place against the backdrop of multiple challenges in both global economy and international politics, with Ukrainian crisis, Syrian conflict, Islamic State, and Ebola. Thus, despite being an economic forum, the G20 could not avoid addressing these issues, with...

Foreign policy uses a wide range of soft power policy instruments and models. It is thus useful to identify the best practices, key tools and approaches that ensure the sustainability and coherence of policy, as well as the connecting elements that allow a country to coordinate its foreign...

Global governance is the reality of the contemporary world. The Group of Seven (G7) and Group of Eight (G8) and the Group of 20 (G20) are indispensable institutions of contemporary global governance, and global governance institutions should be answerable for their actions (or inactions)...

The article addresses the G20 compliance with its commitment to rationalize and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. The analysis is based on the reports by several international organizations, namely OECD, IEA, OPEC and the World Bank. This paper also reviews different approaches to...