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Events
16 September, 2021

EU priorities for the future of the WTO ahead of MC12

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
News
11th October 2021

Linking Trade with Peace at Geneva Trade Week

Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding and Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Research
PhD thesis in progress

Conflict, Road Insecurity and Self-Employed Shopkeepers in Rural Peru

Julia Seiermann
58
News
3rd March 2023

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Gender Centre
811
News
2nd February 2021

A green recovery plan for Israel

Centre for Finance and Development
8
Events
27 April, 2022

The Future of Work Summit 2022: Youth Thinking Ahead

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
810
News
29th April 2022

European Commission Platform on Sustainable Finance’s final report on the taxonomy extension

Centre for Finance and Development
38
News
2nd April 2020

The future of work in the post-Covid-19 digital era

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
78
News
16th August 2022

Text as data in Environmental Economics and Policy

Joëlle Noailly and Centre for International Environmental Studies
Publications
Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
8
News
11th September 2023

Introducing the Trade and Labour Programme

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
Events
15 March, 2022

Paths Panel VII: Exploring Paths of Change in the field of Business and Human Rights

Global Governance Centre
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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