services, which contribute to addressing our common demographic challenges. We intend to ensure
an appropriate level of public investment as well as promote quality infrastructure investment to
address shortfalls, including through effective resource mobilization in partnership with the private
sector. We commit to further investment in areas conducive to economic growth, such as
environment, energy, digital economy, human resource development, education, science and
technology.
We are committed to advancing structural reforms to boost growth, productivity and potential output
and to leading by example in addressing structural challenges. Labor market reform remains
important in some of our economies. We commit to advancing labor market participation by women,
the youth and the elderly, and improving job opportunity and quality. We commit to promote active
labor market policies in order to ensure flexibility, inclusiveness and provide opportunities for the
unemployed. We recognize the importance of achieving price stability and underline that wage
dynamics should remain in line with productivity. We commit to ensuring a strong corporate
governance framework that helps firms to channel corporate earnings in a productive manner to
investment and wages. We are promoting competition, entrepreneurship and innovation, including by
lowering barriers to new business entrants. Innovation is critical to realize sustainable growth.
Competition is a source of innovation and we commit to protect intellectual property rights.
We recognize that global excess capacity in industrial sectors, especially steel, is a pressing
structural challenge with global implications.
We reaffirm our existing exchange rate commitments to market determined exchange rates and to
consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets. We reaffirm that our fiscal and
monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic
objectives using domestic instruments and that we will not target exchange rates. We underscore the
importance of all countries refraining from competitive devaluation. We reiterate that excess volatility
and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and
financial stability.
A stable and resilient international financial architecture is critical for economic and financial stability.
We welcome the entry-into-effect of the 2010 IMF Quota and Governance reforms and reaffirm our
commitment to a strong, quota-based and adequately resourced IMF.
Financial Regulation
We reiterate our commitments to support the timely, full and consistent implementation of the G20
financial sector reform agenda, which will help us achieve our objective of sustainable economic
growth. We also remain committed to finalizing the main elements of the regulatory reform agenda.
We also reiterate our support for the work by the Basel Committee to refine elements of Basel III
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