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Reducing inequality by preventing disaster-induced poverty through adaptive social protection

With disasters becoming more frequent and severe, G20 countries need to reduce poverty and address inequality. Linking social safety nets to disaster risk management can protect vulnerable groups and promote resilience.

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Revitalising ECOSOC, advancing the SDGs: Why the G20 matters now

The world cannot afford to miss another chance. The G20 must rise to the challenge and help shape a renewed multilateralism based on equity, solidarity and resilience.

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Harnessing the potential of community-driven groundwater management in the Global South: Experiences and recommendations

The G20 water platform provides an opportunity to share best practices, highlighting the need for collaboration among ministries and effective governance to achieve water security.

Bridging the connectivity gap: The role of tax incentives in digital inclusion

The G20 should prioritise digital inclusion to enhance social integration and innovation in the Global South, using tax incentives to support this goal.

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Transforming agri-food systems for deep sustainability: A G20 action plan for SDG acceleration

The G20, representing top nations, can promote digitalisation in agri-food systems under South Africa's leadership to boost cooperation.

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An equity lens on food prices

Food prices sit at the intersection of equity and sustainability and the G20 has a role to play in ensuring fair price for produce and labour.

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Integrating ESG principles into debt management and restructuring frameworks in highly indebted countries: A policy roadmap for the G20

Integrating ESG principles into debt management is a transformative shift towards resilience, sustainability and equity.

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Invoking Article 109: How South Africa’s G20 presidency can lead global governance reform

South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy exemplifies how political transformation can be driven by vision and international solidarity.

Harnessing blockchain for resilient and inclusive supply chains in the Global South

By embedding blockchain in regional trade systems, we can accelerate these ambitions and provide a scalable model for other Global South regions.

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Leveraging brain and natural capital: A blueprint for a regenerative global economy

Treating these two forms of capital in isolation ignores the reality that healthy brains need healthy environments, and vice versa.

BRICS to G20: Advancing Climate, Equality and Multilateral Reform

How the upcoming BRICS and G20 Summits can reinforce global action on climate, inequality and institutional reform.

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Addressing food insecurity in conflict-affected regions: Humanitarian–development–peace nexus framework  

The G20’s leadership shows how important global teamwork is to solving hunger.

Cross-border payments at a crossroads: The case for G20-led coordination 

The G20 should ensure robust multistakeholder engagement involving central banks, financial institutions, academia and international organisations.

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Taxing the AI revolution: Aligning digital transformation with global tax reform 

There is an opportunity to leverage AI to modernise tax collection, especially in developing economies. 

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Realising a just and inclusive energy transition requires incorporating the climate change–security nexus: A view from the Asia-Pacific region

The G20 countries urgently need to prioritise just and inclusive energy transition policies that ensure energy security, affordability, accessibility, resilience, market stability and economic prosperity.

Addressing the gender pay gap in the G20 through increasing female workforce participation in green jobs 

It is time to mandate disclosure of the gender pay gap in industries in G20 member states, including green sectors.

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Cybersecurity and geopolitical rivalry: Why Africa needs a digital defence strategy now 

The G20 under South Africa’s presidency can become a platform for Africa’s digital security voice.

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Coherent policies, resilient futures: Financing FLW systems in the Global South  

Analysts play a crucial role in guiding climate and development finance into actionable investment pathways.