Amitabh Kant, the G20 Sherpa from India, made a compelling case on Monday for resolving the world’s problems through cooperation, harmony, and healing, with a special emphasis on developing nations and the Global South, whose voices are frequently ignored. In addition, Kant highlighted Indian initiatives like Aadhaar, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and direct benefit transfer that have assisted in lifting a sizable portion of the population above the poverty line as he opened the first meeting of the G20 Sherpas here. According to Kant, the participants have already received the issue notes for the 13 working groups.
The notes cover issues including faster, inclusive, and resilient growth; speeding progress toward sustainable development goals, particularly those pertaining to health and education; climate financing; and technology change and digital public infrastructure.
As you lead us and as we hear your viewpoint, we will be listening, Kant stated. On Sunday, Kant listed the major problems facing the world as increasing global debt, inflation, slowing growth, and sharp disagreements over the conflict in Ukraine.
Kant emphasised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated that he wanted India’s Presidency to be open to everybody, ambitious, practical, and decisive. “We will be, but without all of you, it is neither practical nor practicable. In order to make the G20 a very vibrant, very dynamic, and a very positive group to drive global growth, global sustainability, and digital transformation, we would therefore appreciate the support, positive and forward-looking support from all of you.
At the opening of the discussions on technological change in the digital economy, he said, “The challenges that we face today can only be solved by working together through hope, harmony, and healing and our first concern should be towards those who have the greatest need.”
According to Kant, India’s G20 Presidency would work to promote the goals of the Global South and developing nations in addition to those of the other G20 members. According to our viewpoint, partnership between developed nations, the Global South, and developing nations should be mutually beneficial. This is a distinct feature of both the established world and emerging economies, thus we need to develop new strategies. We must develop strategies to address important global concerns, he said.
Kant praised India’s efforts to transform its economy through the use of technology, saying: “In the digital economy, we are focusing on digital public infrastructure, quite a bit on our experience of creating digital identities for everyone, creating bank accounts for everyone which has enabled us to lift vast sections of the population above the poverty line through direct benefit transfer, and fast payments, we do a vast number of fast payments, and we have created a vast number of public good.” On Monday, the first discussion session will be on technological change in the digital economy, health, and education, while the second session will be about green development and India’s Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE) project.
Tuesday will see three more sessions, with the topics of multilateralism and food, fuel and fertilisers, women-led development, tourism and culture, and accelerated, inclusive and resilient growth being the main topics.
On December 1, India formally took over as G20 President.
At the conclusion of the two-day G-20 summit in Bali, which was hosted by Indonesia last month, India was given the presidency of the powerful group. On September 9 and 10, in New Delhi, there will be the next G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Heads of State/Government level.
Tuesday will see three more sessions, with the topics of multilateralism and food, fuel and fertilisers, women-led development, tourism and culture, and accelerated, inclusive and resilient growth being the main topics.
On December 1, India formally took over as G20 President.
At the conclusion of the two-day G-20 summit in Bali, which was hosted by Indonesia last month, India was given the presidency of the powerful group. On September 9 and 10, in New Delhi, there will be the next G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Heads of State/Government level.
An intergovernmental meeting of the world’s leading developed and emerging economies is known as the G20 or Group of 20. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union are all included (EU). Together, they comprise two-thirds of the world’s population, 75% of international trade, and more than 80% of the world’s GNP.
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