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Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aerni, P. (Philipp)
- Series:
- Transitioning to Sustainability Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
- Basel : MDPI AG, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the private sector plays a key role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After all, sustainable and inclusive economic growth is essential to enable more people to participate in global prosperity. Encouraging entrepreneurship and job creation are key to SDG 8, as are effective measures to eradicate forced labor, slavery, and human trafficking. Since more than 90 percent of jobs are created by the private sector, more attention must be paid to entrepreneurs that help create dynamic and responsible enterprises that often generate positive externalities for society and the environment through investments in scalable innovations and a commitment to local embeddedness. As such, they help lift people out of poverty through new and relatively well-paid jobs and enable local economies to become more sustainable through global value chain integration. Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth explores the prospects for SDG 8 in the Global South as well as the Global North. It especially considers the positive role the private sector may play as an enabler of human rights, creator of decent work and engine for inclusive development in different contexts. Further, it examines how the institutional environment can facilitate economic change, which may lead to social empowerment and enhanced economic opportunities. A key question the volume explores, is how—in an entrepreneurial context—innovation and scientific knowledge contribute to the creation of scalable innovation that help to de-couple economic growth from the use of natural resources. Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward a sustainable world. Transitioning to Sustainability aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs. Set to be published in 2020/2021, the book series is intended to reach beyond disciplinary, even academic boundaries. For use of the SDG logos and design, please see the according Guidelines for the use of the SDG logo, color wheel, and 17 icons.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series: Volume 8
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Abstracts
- Preface to Transitioning to DecentWork and Economic Growth
- Economic Development and Cultural Change: The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Mexico's Emerging Dual Economy (1970s to 2000sDevelopment and Cultural Change: The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Mexico's Emerging Dual Economy (1970s
- Challenges for the Host Society-Human Trafficking, Slavery and Abuse in the Work Context
- "Business as Part of the Solution": SDG 8 Challenges Popular Views in the Global Sustainability Discourse
- Memories of a Practitioner: Ciba-Geigy Crop Protection Activities in Indonesia in the 1980s, an Example of Local Embeddedness
- Multilevel Sustainability Tensions of MNEs in Developing Countries
- Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change: Sustained and Inclusive Economic Growth as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development
- Employment Gender Gap in the Renewable Energy Sector
- Introduction
- Wyon AG: "Me muess d'Lüt neh wie si sy-Anderi gits e keini"
- Ethical Grounds
- Dignity
- Trust
- Fair Income
- Cooperative Principles and Empowerment
- Externalization of Ethical Values
- The Environment
- Products and Collaborations
- Switzerland and the Small and Medium Enterprises
- Switzerland as a Hub for Technology and Innovation
- The Agenda 2030 in Switzerland
- Swiss SMEs: A Different Approach to Business and Development
- Discussion
- The Difficult Relationship between Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Critique on SDG 8
- Lessons for a New Concept of Decent Work
- Conclusions
- References
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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