When Nazarbayev announced his G-Global Initiative on December 15 of 2011 – on the eve of Kazakhstan’s 20th anniversary of independence – he offered a general concept rather than a detailed blueprint for realizing his objective. He apparently decided to let others come up with a game plan for achieving it. The Astana Economic Forum has the potential to be the place where a detailed blueprint emerges. It will include dozens of economists, government economic policy-makers and other experts, including 11 Nobel Prize winners. A number of those experts – including some of the Nobel laureates – have said before that they believe the global economic system and the international monetary system are in need of reform. So the Forum will have plenty of brainpower to create a blueprint for expanding the number of countries that determine world economic policy.
The key to this occurring is whether someone can harness and focus that brainpower to create a G-Global implementation plan. I, for one, would like to see what the Forum’s collective brainpower could come up with. What do you think?