810
News
17th April 2023

What Needs Transformation? Transdisciplinary Pathways Towards Regenerative Economies

Centre for Finance and Development
58
Events
17 November, 2022

Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
58
Research
Research project in progress

Migration and Labor Market Inequality: The Role of Skills, Gender and Trade

Martina Viarengo
38
Events
3 June, 2022

Medical Countermeasures and Trade in Essential Goods and Services

Global Health Centre
8
News
7th July 2017

CFD-ILO workshop on Job Creation and Inclusive Growth: China’s Experience and International Evidence

Centre for Finance and Development
89
News
16th June 2021

Managing complexity in the platform economy: self-regulation and the cross-border social dialogue route

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
8
Events
4 October, 2023

Towards a Unified Impact Measurement Framework for Impact Investing: a Pilot Study

CICG
Centre for Finance and Development
816
Research
Research project

Employment and Decent Work in Fragile Settings

Oliver Jütersonke, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding and Kazushige Kobayashi
89
Events
27 September–1 October 2021

Geneva Trade Week 2021

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
811
News
2nd February 2021

A green recovery plan for Israel

Centre for Finance and Development
810
Events
21 September, 2022

Rethinking the Agency of “Governed” Subjects

Maison de la Paix
Global Governance Centre and Isabel Pike
38
Events
25 November, 2020

Growth, war and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run

Centre for Finance and Development
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Goal 8 aims to sustain economic growth, while at the same time making it inclusive and sustainable. The UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform places the focus in its progress report on “increasing labour productivity, reducing the unemployment rate, especially for young people, and improving access to financial services and benefits are essential components of sustained and inclusive economic growth”. Read more about Goal 8

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Target 8.1

Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries

Target 8.2

Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

Target 8.3

Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

Target 8.4

Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead

Target 8.5

By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

Target 8.6

By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

Target 8.7

Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms

Target 8.8

Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment

Target 8.9

By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products

Target 8.10

Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

Target 8.a

Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

Target 8.b

By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization