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CCIG
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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The Future of Work Summit

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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16th December 2021

Launch of the Swiss Lab for Sustainable Finance at the Centre for Finance and Development

Centre for Finance and Development
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Green and Digital Futures: Enabling Youth For ‘Just Transitions’

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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4th October 2023

«Package Treaties» at the SIEL Conference in Bogota

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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24 September, 2019

The ILO @ 100: Addressing the Past and Future of Work and Social Protection

Maison de la Paix
Christophe Gironde and Velibor Jakovleski
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29th April 2020

India’s economic lockdown: foregrounding social responsibility

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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4th April 2022

January 2022 Global Economic Prospects report

Centre for Finance and Development
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Development Economics

Martina Viarengo
810
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25 April, 2022

The 3 Major Trends Shaping the Sustainable & Impact Investing Space

Executive Education
News
28th January 2021

World Bank presents Global Economic Prospects Report on Recovery from Pandemic

Centre for Finance and Development and Ugo Panizza
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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