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News
1st May 2020

COVID-19 and Export Bans: How to Avoid a Historical Blunder

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Events
28 September–2 October 2020

Geneva Trade Week

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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29th August 2023

Green and Digital Futures: Enabling Youth For ‘Just Transitions’

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Research project in progress

United Nations Reform and Effectiveness

Thomas Biersteker and Cecilia Cannon
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14 October, 2021

A Keynote Address and Conversation with Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
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Report, 11 June, 2018

Governing Capital, Labor, and Nature in a Changing World

Gregoire Mallard and Gopalan Balachandran
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News
21st October 2021

Work in transition: which implications for democracy?

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Filipe Calvao
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14th January 2019

How Can Energy-Pricing Reforms Be Socially Sustainable?

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration and Tom Moerenhout
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Events
9 May, 2022

How to Achieve Inclusive Growth

Centre for Finance and Development
89
News
21st July 2021

From Ashes to Diamonds: Making Lab-Grown Afterlife

Centre for International Environmental Studies and Filipe Calvao
58
News
3rd March 2023

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Gender Centre
38
News
15th May 2020

Economics in the Time of COVID-19

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