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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Events
24 March, 2021

TASC BREAK | Crowdwork, the Future of Work and the Law

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Events
25 April, 2022

The 3 Major Trends Shaping the Sustainable & Impact Investing Space

Executive Education
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Research
Research project in progress

Reaching the Unreached: Skills Development Policies and the Promise of ICT – A Scoping Study from India and South Africa

Michel Carton
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Events
11 April, 2019

How to Shape a Future that Works – Transforming the global response to the future of work

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Publications
Book chapter, 2018

The relationship between health employment and economic growth

Jean-Louis Arcand
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Research
Research project in progress

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

Martina Viarengo
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Events
26 April, 2021

Double Agents and the Making of Globalisation: How Global Boardrooms Shape the World Polity

Global Governance Centre
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16 Oct, 2015–1 Jan, 1970

Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

Geneva
Felix Kirchmeier
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News
2nd April 2020

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

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Events
29 January, 2020

Ethiopia’s Homegrown Economic Reform Plan

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Events
20 November, 2018

The Emerging World: alternatives that can change everything

Auditorium Jacques Freymond
Executive Education
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Publications
Report, 2020

The role of the State in the exercise of transnational public and private authority over labour standards

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