Chief Economist Group

An important part of the G20 process is dialogue with the expert community. One of the most active dialogue formats is the Expert Twenty (T20). T20 is the official group for the G20, bringing together leading think tanks around the world. It serves as the G20's "ideas bank" and aims to provide policy advice to G20 leaders.

The monitoring covers approved financing by international financial institutions and development agencies in Q1 2023 in Eurasian countries, namely: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

The freezing of Russia’s international reserve assets, the world’s seventh largest, despite not being the first case of its kind, will have systemic impact on the way countries around the world treat their reserves. Financial sanctions have undermined confidence in traditional reserve currencies. A systemic and complete revision of the conceptual approaches to managing international reserve assets is due. The current framework of the international financial system does not offer any off-the-shelf solutions to enable safeguarding the integrity of reserves and maintaining macroeconomic stability

This research paper aims to scrutinise a wide range of solutions that can theoretically replace/supplement reserves in traditional reserve currencies

This paper aims to identify potential containerized and non-containerized freight traffic with a goods nomenclature and to quantify synergies arising from interlinking the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC) and the Eurasian east–west transport corridors

The expert shared his views on why Russia and Middle East need International North-South Transport Corridor, and how its development can help countries seize post-crisis opportunities and foster economic recovery

The Think20 (T20) is the official engagement group of the G20, bringing together leading think tanks and research centers worldwide. It serves as the ‘ideas bank’ of the G20 and aims to provide research-based policy recommendations to the G20 leaders. Given the importance of timely and overarching issues of COVID-19 exit policy coordination, digital/FinTech penetration, and green sustainable economic expansion, the Government of Indonesia has adopted them among the key agenda of the country’s Presidency of G-20 Meeting in 2022

The economic growth of Central Asia, its journey over the last 30 years, and the scale of its recent economic change are impressive. Following a major transformation, Central Asia became a large, important, and rapidly growing region. The world still needs to grasp that transformation.

Once every couple of years, a new big theme overflows the world – one that surfaces a new megatrend and entirely transforms the global agenda. It happened with digital technologies in 2019, and then with the soaring popularity of ESG in 2021. New trends affect most market players. Responses are generated at all managerial decision-making levels, as active engagement becomes not merely a development driver, but the key to survival in a competitive market. The economy and the society are changing – and fast!

The expert shared his views on the megatrends magnified by the Covid-19 crisis, the transition to a green economy, and a rising divide between advanced and developing economies with the focus on digitalization and access to education. He commented on the root causes of the rapid surge in asset prices and explained why the inflationary impact will take longer to neutralise than initially anticipated