The twin challenges of reducing poverty and creating employment / UN.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

UN.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic and Social Development.

Local Subjects:

Economic and Social Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This publication is based on papers presented at two Expert Group Meetings (jointly organized by DSPD and the ILO) that brought together specialists to undertake a review of progress in eradicating poverty and to analyse policy responses to the global jobs crisis in different countries and regions of the world. It calls for a reorientation of macroeconomic policies from the current heavy emphasis on short-term stability to the promotion of sustained, inclusive and equitable growth. It further stresses the need for the integration of social and economic policies to enable the attainment of people-centred development outcomes.

Contents:

Preface

Contributors

Introduction

Poverty matters

Education and the roles of the State and the market in poverty eradication

Governance, development and poverty eradication

Agriculture, rural livelihoods and poverty eradication: some policy lessons from the food price crises

Sustaining effective anti-poverty programmes beyond transformation: challenges and way forward

Employment matters

Macroeconomic policy after the global recession of 2008-2009: a development perspective

The distributional effects of fiscal austerity

Achieving full, productive and freely chosen employment for young people

Financing social and labour market policies in times of crisis and beyond

Crisis-driven labour market programmes: the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean

Labour markets and the Arab spring: widening gaps among aspirations, capabilities and opportunities.

ISBN:

9789210566407

Access Restriction:

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