The report argues that sustained growth is necessary to achieve the urgent development needs of the world’s poor and that there is substantial scope for growing cleaner without growing slower. It recommends that countries make strategic investments and farsighted policy changes that acknowledge natural resource constraints and enable the world's poorest and most vulnerable to benefit from efficient, clean, and resilient growth. Chapter 4 of the report examines implications of green growth policies for labour markets and job creation and tackles the debate on whether green growth will create jobs. It finds that in order to smooth the impacts on labor markets of the transition to green growth, policy makers need to tackle potential skill shortages and impediments to worker mobility.