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South Africa has a progressive tax system. But there are parts of it that reduce its impact and need to be fixed.
Free trade may not be the best way for African counties to improve their food systems.
Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance sustainable development in Africa.
Finance ministers should stay away from debt negotiations because their interests are more short term.
The G20 nations have enough sunny and windy land to power the world with renewable energy.
Tax compliance is a burden for small and medium businesses in Uganda, with negative consequences.
African countries can move from being price takers to price negotiators. They should be able to reduce debt costs, freeing up resources for development.
Instead of disconnected projects driven by external priorities, a country platform enables governments to set the agenda and direct finance to where it is needed.
A successful African rating agency would shift power in global finance.
The G20 should acknowledge that diseases like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are part of a system in which commercial actors are causing ill health.
The G20 has an important role to play in global affairs. But its lack of representation and informal way of working need to be fixed first.
South Africa has secured pledges of R218 billion to fund its transition away from coal-fired power and bring in renewable energy.
South Africa subsidises fossil fuel companies to the tune of R118 billion (US$6.2 billion) a year. As G20 president, South Africa must push to end these subsidies.
South Africa could use its leadership role to champion the establishment of a global credit rating capacity building initiative.
Jobs, the digital economy, heritage restitution and the climate crisis are highlighted by an Africa-led G20.
Holding the G20 presidency this year, South Africa is well positioned to push for new ways to boost agricultural productivity and enhance food security in Africa.
A new report by the non-profit organisation Action Aid calculates that wealthier countries owe Africa US$36 trillion in climate debt.
The effectiveness of the G20, an international forum for economic and political issues, may be blunted by the disruptive behaviour of the Trump administration.
Trump’s power is not absolute. It is constrained by the relative decline in US power in the world.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of International Politics and History, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Japan's International Relations, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield