Working Toward Shared Prosperity Through Just Jobs: 6 Points of Action
A recent conference organized by the Just Jobs Network in New Delhi focused on one of the most pressing challenges of our time: how to create good jobs to drive employment-based, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth.
Just job creation will lift millions of people out of poverty and into the middle class, empower billions of women and young people, and help us develop a strong, secure, and robust 21st century global economy.
India needs livelihood- and skills-building programs that will help young people realize both their aspirations and the need for a more skilled workforce.
The World Bank Embraces Jobs but Not the Institutions that Support Them
The World Bank’s new World Development Report doesn’t go far enough in embracing the importance of labor market institutions, such as a minimum wage and collective bargaining, in making jobs the driver of economic growth.
Knut Panknin presents the views of a top industrialist and a union leader on Germany’s economic success, both of whom agree that a well-paid workforce is essential to strong economic growth.
![President Barack Obama talks with World Trade Organization Secretary General Pascal Lamy, who warns that “the discrepancy between the commitments taken [by the G-20 countries to avoid protectionism] and the actions on the ground add to credibility concerns.” (AP/ Charles Dharapak)](https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/06/g20_global_trade_onpage-1.jpg?w=450)