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Highlights from the 2023 World Economic Forum

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Private Asset Impact Fund Report 2021

Centre for Finance and Development
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Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Shalini Randeria, Deval Desai and Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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29–30 April 2021

YOUTH THINKING AHEAD 2021 – The Future of Work

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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The ILO at 100: Showing its wrinkles or its cracks?

Velibor Jakovleski
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Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Centre for Finance and Development
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27th January 2022

Fieldwork in Colombia as part of the “Anthroposouth” project

Centre for International Environmental Studies
58
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The Needs of Workers and their Families in Ethiopia’s Textile and Garment Sectors

Oliver Jütersonke, Alexandre Freire and Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding
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3rd October 2023

First Workshop of the Sinergia Project on Addressing Free Trade’s Negative Spillovers

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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31st May 2024

Launch of the New Executive Certificate in Nature-Positive Economy: Drive Social and Economic Transformation for Sustainable Prosperity

Executive Education
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22 November, 2016

The health workforce: a good investment

Geneva / Global
Michaela Told
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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