Economic growth

Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity

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															Time to Act for SDG 8: Integrating Decent Work, Sustained Growth and Environmental Integrity
													

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The International Labour Organization is the tripartite U.N. agency that promotes Decent Work through employment, social security, labour standards and social dialogue. Its work on skills development is guided by the conceptual framework on Skills to improve productivity, employment growth, and development agreed in 2008 by representatives of Governments, Employers’ Associations and Workers’ Associations. Research, policy advice, and pilot projects and technical cooperation programmes to apply good practices in different circumstances across its 185 member States aims to boost the employability of workers, the productivity and competitiveness of enterprises, and the inclusiveness of economic growth. The ILO Secretariat in offices in 40 countries works with Ministries of Labour, employers’ organizations, and trade unions to integrate skills development into national and sector development strategies in order to better meet current labour market needs and to prepare for the jobs of the future; to expand access to employment-related training so that youth, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are better able to acquire skills and secure productive and decent work; and to improve the ability of public employment services to provide career guidance, maintain labour exchange services, and deliver active labour market programmes.For more information regarding the ILO’s work on skills and employability go to: http://www.ilo.org/skills/lang--en/index.htm; for ILO/Cinterfor's Knowledge Management Plarform, see: http://www.oitcinterfor.org

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Research papers

Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.

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16 Jul 2019

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This report presents progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 8, analyses interlinkages with other SDGs and provides policy recommendations. The report seeks to improve understanding of SDG 8 at the empirical, conceptual and policy levels by:
(a) charting empirical progress towards the 12 targets under SDG 8 and comparing performance across country income groups;
(b) developing a conceptual mapping of dynamic interlinkages between SDG 8 targets and specific targets under other SDGs, and exploring on that basis major patterns of achievement in the various world regions; and
(c) describing a positive spiral of policy interventions and institutional support that can enable countries to achieve SDG 8 by 2030.

An urgent acceleration of efforts is required to bring about transformative change in support of SDG 8 in its three dimensions of sustained, inclusive, and sustainable growth.

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Sustainable development

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Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Advancing decent work for sustainable development

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															Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2018: Advancing decent work for sustainable development
													

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ILO

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Career guidance and employment services

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Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.

Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.

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19 Nov 2018

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The Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2018 report pulls together the most recent statistics to take stock of developments in labour markets across the most populous region of the world. Asia and the Pacific stands out as the world’s top performer when it comes to economic growth, owing in large part to its dynamic labour markets. Yet despite the plethora of work in the region, work that qualifies as 'decent' remains in short supply in many countries.

Acknowledging the commitments made in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to 'promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all' under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, special attention is given to assessing the region’s prospects to advance decent work for inclusive growth and sustainable development.

Where countries in the region fall short in their capacity to expand decent work and hence inclusive growth – as almost all countries do – the report suggests a course of action for advancing on a policy mix that can help to keep decent work front and centre in the development agenda.

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Development policy

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Asia and the Pacific

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Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa

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Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa

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International organizations

Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.

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01 Oct 2018

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Part of the Africa Development Forum Series. This book lays out a range of policy and implementation actions that are needed for countries in sub-Saharan Africa to meet the challenge of improving learning while expanding access and completion of basic education for all. It underscores the importance of aligning the education system to be relentlessly focused on learning outcomes and to ensuring that all children have access to good schools, good learning materials, and good teachers.

It is unique in characterizing countries according to the challenges they faced in the 1990s and the educational progress they have made over the past 25 years. The authors review the global literature and contribute their extensive new analyses of multiple datasets from over three dozen countries in the region. They integrate findings about what affects children's learning, access to schooling, and progress through basic education. The book examines four areas to help countries better align their systems to improve learning: completing the unfinished agenda of reaching universal basic education with quality; ensuring effective management and support of teachers; targeting spending priorities and budget processes on improving quality; and closing the institutional capacity gap. It concludes with an assessment of how future educational progress may be affected by projected fertility rates and economic growth.

The primary audience for this book are policy makers in Africa, practitioners, and partners concerned about building the knowledge capital of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Economic growth

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The Online Platform Economy in 2018

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The Online Platform Economy in 2018

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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.

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26 Sep 2018

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Drivers, Workers, Sellers, and Lessors Technological innovation is transforming economic exchange. Just a decade ago, the Online Platform Economy comprised a handful of marketplaces connecting independent sellers to buyers of physical goods. Today, many consumers use software platforms to procure almost any kind of good or service from independent suppliers as a routine part of daily life. Have these innovations created viable new options for making a living?

Technological innovation is transforming economic exchange. Just a decade ago, the Online Platform Economy comprised a handful of marketplaces connecting independent sellers to buyers of physical goods. Today, many consumers use software platforms to procure almost any kind of good or service from independent suppliers as a routine part of daily life. Have these innovations created viable new options for making a living?

For this study, the JPMorgan Chase Institute Online Platform Economy dataset is extended in order to track supply-side participation and earnings. We identified 38 million payments directed through 128 different online platforms to 2.3 million distinct Chase checking accounts, out of a de-identified sample of 39 million, between October 2012 and March 2018. Our description distinguishes four sectors of the Online Platform Economy:

1.The transportation sector, in which drivers transport people or goods

2.The non-transport work sector, in which workers offer a growing variety of services including dog walking, home repair, telemedicine, and many others

3.The selling sector, in which independent sellers of goods find buyers through online marketplaces

4. The leasing sector, in which lessors find lessees to rent homes, parking spaces, and many other types of assets.

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The Africa Competitiveness Report 2017

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The Africa Competitiveness Report 2017

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08 Dec 2017

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Addressing Africa’s Demographic Dividend Published on a biennial basis, The Africa Competitiveness Report highlights areas requiring policy action and investment to ensure that Africa lays a solid foundation for sustained and inclusive growth. The Report, which is the result of a longstanding collaboration, leverages the knowledge and expertise of the African Development Bank, the World Bank Group, and the World Economic Forum to present a joint policy vision that can help Africa transform its economies.

By conducting a comprehensive analysis of Africa’s most pressing competitiveness challenges, the Report discusses the barriers and challenges to putting Africa’s economies onto a solid footing and helping them to achieve sustainable, broad based growth, taking into account rapid demographic changes. Africa’s working-age population is expected to soar by 450 million people, or close to 70 percent, by 2035. The Report examines how this population growth can either help to achieve broader shared prosperity and improve the livelihood of African people or become a source of fragility, social tension, and economic hardships. It does so by examining the potential of Africa’s fast-growing youth population to catalyze economic development through accelerating rates of job creation. It also discusses the potential of cities to transform, strengthen, and diversify Africa’s economies by creating more dynamic urban manufacturing and service sectors. The Report emphasizes the importance of ensuring that the youth of today and tomorrow possess the skills they need to build vibrant and inclusive economies. It further delivers detailed competitiveness profiles for 35 African countries, and provides a comprehensive summary of the drivers of productivity and competitiveness within the continent.

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Morocco 2040 emerging by investing in intangible capital

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Morocco 2040 emerging by investing in intangible capital

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Monitoring and evaluation

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Measuring the outcomes of skills systems, policies and targeted programmes is essential in order to monitor and improve their effectiveness and relevance. Elements of sound assessment processes include: institutions to sustain feedback from employers and trainees; mechanisms to track labour market outcomes of training and systems of accountability that use this information; and, quantitative and qualitative labour market information and its dissemination to all stakeholders.

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National policies and initiatives

National legislation, policies and initiatives on the issue of training and skills development and the world of work.

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Policy and strategy

Recommendations and advice on resolving policy challenges related to skills development systems and their linkages to the world of work. Concise syntheses of experience from the international organizations.

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15 May 2017

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Morocco country economic memorandum 2017. The report is aimed at assessing Morocco’s recent economic performance and its prospects for growth over the next two decades. The report outlines the economic governance reforms that could facilitate the achievement of an ambitious, albeit realistic, scenario of faster sustainable economic growth and more inclusive human and social development.

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STED results based management and M&E manual

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STED results based management and M&E manual

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Anticipating and matching skills needs

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Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.

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Matching skills to labour market demand requires reliable sectoral and occupational information and institutions that connect employers with training providers. Sector based strategies and institutions have proved effective in engaging all stakeholders in promoting both pre-employment training and life-long learning.

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23 Jan 2017

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This manual provides an overview of the Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) programme’s results based management (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system and guidance on its application. It explains how and what will be: (i) monitored for STED interventions and the programme as a whole, to determine whether they are on track in achieving their intended results; and (ii) measured to estimate the impact and determine the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions.

The manual serves as a guide for programme implementation and RBM, and also as a communication tool that allows STED and other ILO staff, national and sector stakeholders, collaborating experts, donors, and other development partners to understand how the programme’s objectives and targets will be measured.

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The Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017

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The Inclusive Growth and Development Report 2017

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Access to training

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Access for all to good quality education, vocational training and workplace learning is a fundamental principle of social cohesion and economic growth. Some groups of people may require targeted attention if they are to benefit from education, training and employment opportunities.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged youth, lower skilled workers, people with disabilities, and people in rural communities. The attractiveness of vocational education and training is enhanced when combined with entrepreneurship training and when public policies encourage utilization of higher skills by business.

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17 Jan 2017

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World Economic Forum 2017 Around the world, no bigger policy challenge preoccupies leaders than expanding social participation in the process and benefits of economic growth. The report, which covers 109 economies, seeks to improve our understanding of how countries can use a diverse spectrum of policy incentives and institutional mechanisms to make economic growth more socially inclusive without dampening incentives to work, save and invest.

The Report presents a new global index, the Inclusive Development Index (IDI), providing a richer and more nuanced assessment of countries’ level (and recent performance) of economic development than the conventional one based on GDP per capita alone. It also provides a policy framework showing the many factors that can drive a more inclusive growth process.

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Why is growth less poverty reducing in Africa?

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Why is growth less poverty reducing in Africa?

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16 Nov 2016

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Paper presented at the 2016 Jobs & Development Conference, 2- 3 November. This paper analyses the economic impacts of growth on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting a rich and unique dataset covering 56 countries between 1990 and 2012. Albeit the high economic growth rates of the last decades, there have been increasing concerns that growth is not benefiting African population at large. In line with the view that certain sectors are more poverty reducing than others, we find that during the period 1990-2012 productivity gains in agriculture played a smaller role in Africa than elsewhere. At the same time, employment shifts out of agriculture have contributed only half as much to poverty reduction than in the rest of the world, and especially there has been no impact of movements into manufacturing employment, which instead have been at the basis of the poverty reducing strategies of South and East Asia in the past decades. Forecasted projections for the years to come suggest that African governments would need to double their efforts towards structural transformations in order to achieve sustained poverty reduction.

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Independent evaluation of ILO’s strategy and actions to promote skills development for jobs and growth (2010–2015)

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															Independent evaluation of ILO’s strategy and actions to promote skills development for jobs and growth (2010–2015)
													

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Evaluation reports

Analytical assessments of technical cooperation programmes and national skills and employment policies, identifying success factors of different interventions in response to particular challenges in different circumstances.

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15 Nov 2016

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Skills development increases the employability of workers, the competitiveness of enterprises and the inclusiveness of growth. This high-level evaluation explores the extent to which the ILO’s strategy, programme approach and interventions to promote skills development for jobs growth achieved their intended results from 2010-15. It also aims to facilitate the alignment of the ILO’s skills-related work with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and informs the development of the strategic plan 2018-21. The evaluation identifies recommendations for improving the ILO’s skills-related work and reflects on lessons learned and emerging good practices in an effort to contribute to organizational learning.

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