At the Graduate Institute, more than ten professors, researchers and students work on SDG 8. Their work ranges from academic courses on work, labour and practice, to research projects, such as a project examining skills development policies and Information Communication Technologies, as well as academic and policy-oriented publications and events. We also offer an Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices.

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22 February, 2023

Promoting Sustainable Investment and Green Trade : the Swiss perspective

CCIG
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Publications
Report, 11 February, 2020

Is globalization finally re-balancing ? Novel ways of levelling the playing field for labour

Joost Pauwelyn
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Publications
Book chapter, 2018

Governing capital, labor, and nature in a changing world

Gopalan Balachandran and Gregoire Mallard
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21 September, 2022

World Bank Global Economic Prospects report

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Finance and Development
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Publications
Working paper, December 2013

Education and Skills Post – 2015: What evidence, whose perspectives?

Michel Carton
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Research
Research project

The subnational politics of company-community relationships in the extractives sector

Shalini Randeria, Deval Desai and Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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All SDGs
Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
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14 April, 2021

G-2 Conference and Hackathon Challenge 2021 – How to Make the WTO Fit for Future Trade

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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News
16th June 2021

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

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Events
8 December, 2020

Promoting Circularity in Transition Economies: The Role of Trade and Economic Cooperation

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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8
Events
1 March, 2021

Green Bonds and EU’s Sustainable Finance Reform – What Opportunities?

Executive Education
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18 November, 2020

Stakeholder priorities for a forward-looking WTO agenda on environmental sustainability and trade

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