IS INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT THE ANSWER TO SLUGGISH ECONOMIC GROWTH?
At no time has there been a bigger promise of higher infrastructure investment in Asia, with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and...
LABOR MARKET POLICIES FOR THE CHANGING (OR NOT) STATUS OF EMPLOYMENT
Labor market policy seeks, at base, to fulfil two aims, and these remain unchanged. One—and note that I say ‘one,’ not ‘first’—is to...
A Skilled Workforce for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth
Equipping the workforce with the skills required for the jobs of today and those of tomorrow is a strategic concern in the national...
Unemployment: Commitment for Change and Decent Work
Unemployment and underemployment plague the lives of people in poverty around the world. In developing countries, many work in insecure...
DECENT WORK FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS - Time to turn commitments into action
Domestic workers are almost always women, often migrants and children. Despite the fact that it is one of the oldest and most important...
Decent work for migrant fishers
Decent work and productive employment in the fishing sector is fundamental to ensuring effective fishing operations, which themselves are...
Decent work for homeworkers in the leather footwear industry
Homeworkers in the leather footwear industry experience extremely poor working conditions. As companies engage in a ‘race to the bottom’...
Decent work deficits in the Philippines
The Manila office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has just come up with Decent Work Country Diagnostics: Philippines 2017....
Decent Employment in the Philippines
“Statistics show that in terms of providing decent employment for our people, we have not improved in the past five years. Unemployment...
Creating More and Better Jobs: We Can Work It Out
With growth accelerating to historic highs, why is the economy still having difficulty in creating more and better jobs? This is because...