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Il G20 italiano ha raggiunto risultati sul contrasto alla pandemia, sul clima, e sulla ripresa globale. Ma molto rimane ancora da fare e il T20 indica la strada da percorrere.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on every aspect of society, be it our mental and physical wellbeing, our health sectors, our education systems, our economies or our social lives.

The COVID-19 pandemic showcases the need for a fundamental systemic change in migration management. In this framework, working together is the only viable scheme to accomplish an effective and sustainable response to the international migration phenomenon.

There are growing expectations on the G20 Summit in Rome, which is now at the starting line. The key question is: how to escape the fate of a G20 Summit which is a little more than a “photo opportunity” among world leaders (all the more so as some of them - such as Putin and Xi – are missing)? To begin with, it is worth noting that the Summit is just the tip of the G20 “iceberg”: it is the culmination of a year-long multilateral effort which included 19 thematic working groups as well as 13 Ministerial meetings in 2021.

The G20 Summit is at the starting line with G20 Leaders gathering in Rome on 30-31 October. The agenda of the Summit is loaded with pressing global challenges: vaccinations and access to healthcare, economic recovery and inequalities, climate change and green transition, trade, finance and digitalisation. But the G20 is a year-long multilateral effort. What has already been achieved during the Italian Presidency?

As the second year of the pandemic grinds on and vaccination rates in parts of the developing world, especially Africa, remain low, impacting on the ability of economies and households to recover strongly, the difficulty of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 becomes even more acute. Developing economies have had to deal with an unholy trinity of COVID-19, debt, and the climate crisis with no respite in sight, and with limited resources and instruments at their disposal.

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global threat that has captured the international community’s attention. As it unfolds, the need for stronger international cooperation and condition of policy actions is growing to avoid a protracted situation. Reported confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Africa account for only 2.5% of global cases, but the effects from the instituted containment measures are devastating, especially given inadequate buffers to appropriately respond.

On the 13th of October, the last of the four official meetings among Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors took place within the framework of the Italian G20 Presidency. This was also the last of the numerous ministerial encounters that have filled this year’s busy schedule. The outcome will be conveyed at the final Summit in Rome, scheduled for the 30th and 31st of October, which, however, will first be preceded by a joint meeting between Finance and Health Ministers.

The first two decades of the 21st century have shown  humankind’s need for a paradigm shift. Evidence for our societies’ most pressing issues, such as global inequality and climate change, have been on leaders’ tables for a long time.

La Turchia è un membro del G20 fin dalla sua creazione nel 1999. Assieme all’ONU e all’OCSE, il Gruppo dei 20 rappresenta il principale forum internazionale di cui Ankara fa parte. L’inclusione del paese in questa istituzione è dovuta al ruolo di primo piano che esso riveste nell’economia regionale. Con un Pil di 720 miliardi di dollari e 84 milioni di abitanti nel 2020, la Turchia costituisce la più grande economia del Mediterraneo orientale. Fin dalla fondazione del forum, la partecipazione al G20 ha rappresentato un’opportunità politica per Ankara.

Rallenta la crescita del Pil, e le questioni interne diventano la priorità per Pechino. Con uno sguardo al Congresso 2022 del Partito Comunista Cinese.

Il Sudafrica si presenta come la Cenerentola del G20. Se si considerano le dimensioni dell’economia nazionale, infatti, il paese è l’ultimo dei 19 grandi, dietro anche all’Argentina, ed è superato, oltre che da tre paesi europei esclusi dal gruppo (Spagna, Polonia e Paesi Bassi), da una mezza dozzina di stati asiatici e da due paesi africani (Nigeria e Egitto).