The Brisbane Growth Strategies provide a blueprint for an ambitious goal of lifting G20 GDP by more than 2 percent, as well as a specific and feasible action plan to promote economic growth and to create job opportunities. The initiative of a four-year infrastructure hub is crucial for bridging the growth gap between developing countries and developed nations. There is also minimum policy cooperation among G20 members in terms of macroeconomic and structural policies. However, the 2010 IMF Quota and Governance Reform still remains delayed. While the Managing Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde and other member countries, except for the United States, talked about an alternative plan to push the reform, no concrete measures or schemes were discussed.

An updated roadmap for dealing with shadow banking has been provided and work is ongoing to achieve it.

The G20 Brisbane summit showed support for a robust and effective WTO and its commitment to promote the remaining issues of Doha round negotiation, which is an encouragement to the efforts to get out of the deadlock in the WTO.

The joint announcement by U.S. and China, the top two biggest emitters, to reducing global emissions demonstrates a hopeful success in December 2015 Paris Climate Conference. The slow progress goal of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies, however, was used as a proof of the failure of the G20.