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...

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...

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...

The rhetoric of Donald Trump, as well as some of his actions, have given rise to a lot of questions as to what will be the United States' future policy toward certain leading international organizations like the UN, G7, the EU, and the WTO. This policy will certainly undergo a number of changes,...

As the global community reflects on the contentious outcomes of the summits of the Group of 20 (G20) and looks to future presidencies to come up with ambitious agendas, the legitimacy and effectiveness of both the G20 and the Group of Seven (G7) and the Group of Eight (G8) are put to the test....

Similar to the other BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa), since 2007 Russia has been creating, or rather ‘re-creating', an international development assistance programme and has become an active global development cooperation partner. While the Soviet Union was one of the...