Engage rising powers
Germany’s cooperation with rising powers is in our own interest – and also a goal in itself: only through cooperation can we create sufficient trust to engage in joint solution-seeking. We are increasingly engaging in a „world of uncertainties“, and thus need partners for problem-solving, both regionally and globally.
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Nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele umsetzen
Die Verabschiedung der SDGs wurde von Politikern weltweit gefeiert, als ob mit der Unterzeichnung auch schon die Zielerreichung gelungen wäre. Die eigentliche Herausforderung liegt aber nicht in der Formulierung unverbindlicher Absichtserklärungen, sondern in deren Umsetzung in konkrete Handlungen. Wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass die SDGs nun nicht stillschweigend in der Schublade verschwinden, sondern ihr Kerngedanke zum verbindlichen Bestandteil nationaler und internationaler Politik wird?
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The chairs of the Think20, together with the other G20 Engagement Groups Business20, Civil20, Labour20, Science20 and Women20, published a Joint Statement for Open and Inclusive Societies. On the occasion of the meeting of the G20 Foreign Ministers on 16 and 17 February 2017 in Bonn, Germany, and in view of growing challenges to the…
Democracy promotes economic growth
Does democracy promote economic growth? An immense body of literature already exists on this topic but there is, as yet, no hard consensus among scholars and policymakers alike about the general link between democracy and growth. This question is particularly relevant to sub-Saharan Africa—a region where two broad trends of fast economic growth and democratization concurrently happened over the past two decades.
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G20 and Foreign Offices
The G20 began as a forum for Finance Ministers and Bank Governors in 1999, but with the addition of the Leaders’ Summits in 2008, the Executive Office (or in the case of the 2017 G20 – the German Federal Chancellery) began to play a central role within the G20. A general division of labour has evolved in preparing G20 Leaders’ Summits whereby most economic and financial issues are managed through the Finance Track, and many non-economic issues are managed through the Sherpa Track via the G20 President’s executive office and an appointed Sherpa.
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