Strategies for a more resilient world

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister in Singapore and chair of the board of the Group of Thirty, discusses domestic and multilateral strategies to build resilience and optimism in an era of profound insecurity.
Singapore is at the epicentre of both Asia’s emergence in the world and the rise of US-China tensions, geoeconomic fragmentation and a worsening global environmental crisis.
Drawing on his experience, both as a seasoned Singapore policymaker and chair of several international panels, the senior minister focuses on the ‘four R’s’; re-orientating macroeconomic thinking, reforming governance of global public goods, regenerating jobs without recourse to protection, and refocusing politics to avoid a zero-sum world.
Key questions include:
How should macroeconomic policy be repositioned for a world of inherent uncertainty and recurring shocks?
Why should countries be wary of the rise of new industrial policies?
What approaches would work to support broad-based income growth amidst the twin realities of more powerful new digital technologies and a globalized world? How is Singapore addressing this challenge?
Can politics avoid zero-sum outcomes in an already polarized world?
How can the increasing power of Asia lead to better outcomes at supranational level?
As with all member events, questions from the audience drive the conversation.