{"id":208711,"date":"2022-09-29T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208711"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:29:29","slug":"g-20-presidency-is-an-opportunity-to-position-india-as-the-voice-of-the-global-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/g-20-presidency-is-an-opportunity-to-position-india-as-the-voice-of-the-global-south\/","title":{"rendered":"G-20 presidency is an opportunity to position India as the voice of the Global South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>G-20 presidency is an opportunity to position India as the voice of the Global South\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Indian Express<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a029th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 \u2013 Important International Institutions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong>G20 and opportunities for India<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>India is about to take the presidency of G20. Its presidency will play a great role in putting forward Global South.<\/p>\n

Recently external affairs minister S Jaishankar has called India the Voice of Global South<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, there are many concerns as India\u2019s official outlook has also changed with time.<\/p>\n

How has India\u2019s official outlook change?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India has been inactive in the Group of 77 (G-77). It is now a 134-member group of developing economies.<\/p>\n

India last hosted a G-77 meeting in New\u00a0Delhi\u00a0in the 1980s whereas Pakistan has been more active within this group and currently chairs it.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, India was busy with forum like G-7 plus, BRICS, SCO and trilaterals and quadrilaterals like Quad, etc.<\/p>\n

Several factors seem to have contributed to a change in Indian official outlook.<\/p>\n

What are the factors responsible for the change in Indian official outlook?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First,<\/strong> the unwillingness of the P-5 (the US, Russia, China, France and UK) to reform UN governance and let India into the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n

Second,<\/strong> Western deglobalization and disinterest in the reform of multilateral financial and trade organizations (IMF, WB & WTO).<\/p>\n

Third,<\/strong> failure on the part of the US, EU, China and Japan to address the problem of fixing external debt burden of developing countries.<\/p>\n

Fourth,<\/strong> the deadlines on climate change.<\/p>\n

Fifth,<\/strong> the East-West power struggle brought by Russia\u2019s invasion of\u00a0Ukraine and imposing huge costs on developing economies.<\/p>\n

What are the concerns with the present G20 meeting in Indonesia?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Indonesia is currently hosting G-20 summit.<\/p>\n

It is unlikely that Russia and the US will come together in the G-20 meeting. If the Indonesia summit fails, G-20 might enter a non-functional phase.<\/p>\n

Therefore, taking the presidency of G20 will be an opportunity for India to fix many issues.<\/p>\n

How G20\u2019s presidency will be an opportunity for India?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past few meetings, the G20 has not played any significant role. For example, it failed to step in and help the Covid-afflicted world.<\/p>\n

Therefore, India may be taking over the chairmanship of a paralyzed group and it will be an opportunity for India to breathe life in the group through North-South dialogue.<\/p>\n

G20 will also be a great opportunity for India to showcase its tourist destinations to the world and promote tourism.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s focus on reform of multilateralism, international finance and trade, climate change, developing country external debt, etc. were last seen in the pre-globalisation India era of the G-77.<\/p>\n

India can raise these issues back on the global platform (G20). It will make a low-income developing country like India the Voice of the Global South.<\/p>\n

However, India needs to regain the trust of other developing countries, especially in Africa and South and Southeast Asia to once again play this role effectively.<\/p>\n

What can be the course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Indian foreign policy has been on the lines with the Western policies. Therefore, there is a need to stay in the South and raise the developmental concerns of the Global South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cG-20 presidency is an opportunity to position India as the voice of the Global South\u201d published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a029th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Important International Institutions Relevance:\u00a0G20 and opportunities for India News: India is about to take the presidency of G20. Its presidency will play a… Continue reading G-20 presidency is an opportunity to position India as the voice of the Global South<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-208711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}