Ep. 33 | Shaping the G20 Agenda: Social Protection, Development and Global Priorities

In this episode, we’re talking about the G20 – an annual gathering of the world’s largest economies and a major global forum for discussing a wide range of economic issues. In recent years, that has included social protection, a set of policies used by many countries to stabilise economies in the face of successive crises.

Brazil takes over the G20 presidency from India on 1 December 2023. At this crucial moment of handover, we have invited researchers from both countries to talk about how G20 agendas are shaped, how social protection has featured, and their shared goal of expanding the voice of the Global South in this premier international forum.

Meet our guests:

• Jhanvi Tripathi, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, and Coordinator, Think20 India Secretariat.
• Fábio Veras Soares, Director of International Studies, Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea)

For our Quick Wins segment, we are joined by Carla Mejia, Regional Nutrition Advisor for WFP in Latin America and the Caribbean. We discuss the evidence and impact of social protection interventions on nutrition and food security in light of a recent joint study by WFP, IDS and IFPRI, which proposes an analytical and operational framework linking social protection and better nutrition outcomes.

 

Resources

• Publication | G20 Policy for Health Systems: Promoting Holistic Outcomes and Addressing Vulnerabilities in Healthcare
• Publication | Leveraging Knowledge Sharing for Social Protection
• Publication | Towards a Robust Social Protection System in the Post Pandemic Era
• Speech | President Lula during Session 2 - One Family of the G20 Summit

Quick Wins

• News | Social Protection Pathways to Nutrition