Business leaders have met in Paris to fine-tune their policy recommendations for this year's G20 leaders summit in Australia.
Representatives of the B20 - the business advisory forum attached to the G20 - joined other prominent members of the international business community at this week's Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Forum in France.
More than 100 senior business leaders participated in B20 taskforce discussions, along with global banking and government representatives.
The B20 wants to use Australia's G20 presidency to forge international agreements on trade, infrastructure and labour issues in an effort to boost global economic and employment growth.
And the head of B20 Australia is confident it can help to achieve practical outcomes, reporting "a good degree of consensus" between attendees in Paris.
"All governments are in the same position with the need for economic growth and jobs," B20 Australia "Sherpa" Robert Milliner said.
"There is a united understanding that is going to be driven by things like trade, investment in infrastructure and greater capital flows and investments."
Mr Milliner said the B20 would leave Paris with a near-completed set of recommendations, with these to be further refined ahead of the B20 summit in Sydney in July.
They will then be put to the G20/B20 summit in Brisbane in November.
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