Agenda (think tank)

Agenda seminar in Oslo, January 2015. Foreign Minister Børge Brende speaks, while Agenda manager Marte Gerhardsen and former PM Gro Harlem Brundtland listen in.

Agenda is a think tank focused on both politics in Norway and international affairs, located in Oslo, Norway. Agenda started up activities in August 2014.[1] The think tank is headed by Marte Gerhardsen,[2] a former diplomat and director of DNB ASA and secretary general of Care Norway.[3] Chairman of the Board is the lawyer Geir Lippestad.[4][5]

Agenda's research focuses particularly on five topics: Labour economics, welfare, integration, climate change and energy, as well as foreign policy. Occacionally, it has also commented on party tactics aiming to establish a broader alliance at the left spectrum of Norwegian politics.[6] The think tank has a stated ideological orientation towards the center-left. It partly seeks a position in opposition to the liberal think tank Civita, which is funded by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise.[7] Agenda is a non-partisan and non-profit entity funded jointly by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO),[8] and by the Norwegian CEO and philanthropist Trond Mohn.[9]

In public discourse, the think tank has argued in favor of shifting towards taxing property objects with higher rates,[10] in conjunction with reforming the Norwegian "Wealth Tax",[11] as well as lowering income tax rates and the corporate tax. Agenda has also published reports on economic inequality, agriculture reform,[12] test standards in the school system,[13] labor productivity,[14] green technology,[15] social mobility,[16] international development aid,[17] and gender inequality in the work place.[18]

References

  1. ↑ Agenda er i gang - Tankesmien Agenda, June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Marte Gerhardsen blir Agenda-leder - Dagsavisen, DATE.
  3. ↑ Marte Gerhardsen generalsekretær i CARE - Nettavisen, January 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ Styret (Board of Directors) - Tankesmien Agenda
  5. ↑ Lippestad skal lede sosialdemokratisk tenketank - Aftenposten, December 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ Refser Ap for dårlig samarbeid med sentrum - Aftenposten, June 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ De rike får mer av kaka - Kaia Storvik (Agenda), in Dagsavisen, July 4, 2014.
  8. ↑ LO-lederen inn i Agenda-styret - Dagsavisen, December 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ 12 millioner til ny tenketank - Dagsavisen, November 5, 2013.
  10. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/prinsipper-fort-skattesystem/
  11. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/en_ny_formueskatt/
  12. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/verdien-av-norsk-mat/
  13. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/kan-skolens-kvalitet-males/
  14. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/hva-er-produktivitet/
  15. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/fra-svart-gull-til-gronn-vekst/
  16. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/sosial-mobilitet/
  17. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/hva-vil-vi-med-bistanden/
  18. ↑ http://www.tankesmienagenda.no/notater/kvinner-pa-topp-i-norsk-naeringsliv/

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