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Bringing Coherence to the Promotion of Just Jobs Report
With 212 million people unemployed around the globe, the most pressing item on the global economic agenda must be the creation of just jobs. (iStockphoto)

Bringing Coherence to the Promotion of Just Jobs

Developed and developing countries alike must get behind an agenda that focuses on the creation of “just jobs” for the global economy.

Sabina Dewan

Social Protection Is a Necessity, Not a Privilege Report
Workers take notes from a lob-listing board in the Phillipines. (AP/Pat Roque)

Social Protection Is a Necessity, Not a Privilege

The Great Recession highlights deficiencies in social protection systems that should be in place to promote broad-based economic growth.

Sabina Dewan

Beyond Moral Justification Report
The recent economic crisis makes it even more challenging for developing countries to achieve gender parity—when men and women have equal access to economic opportunity and outcomes in education, in the transition from school to work, and in the labor market. (AP/Kent Gilbert)

Beyond Moral Justification

Isha Vij and Sabina Dewan examine the importance of delivering just jobs to women.

Isha Vij, Sabina Dewan

It’s the Jobs, Stupid! Article
President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak talk during the G-20 SME Finance Challenge Award winners ceremony at the G-20 summit in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, November 12, 2010. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

It’s the Jobs, Stupid!

Job creation is the common goal that G-20 countries should be banding together to work on, writes Sabina Dewan.

Sabina Dewan

Just Jobs Report
A Chinese factory worker mans the assembly line at DaimlerChrysler's first factory in Beijing. To have a well-functioning economy people need jobs that allow them to work in acceptable working conditions, with appropriate protections and compensation, and with the right to organize and bargain collectively. (AP/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Just Jobs

John Podesta and Sabina Dewan introduce Just Jobs, a new Center for American Progress program.

John Podesta, Sabina Dewan

Planning Beyond 2015 Article
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters on Monday, September 20, 2010. (AP/Richard Drew)

Planning Beyond 2015

Renewing momentum toward the Millennium Development Goals will require the UN to recast priorities, write Isha Vij and Sabina Dewan.

Isha Vij, Sabina Dewan

From Bangladesh to You Article
Bangladeshi police use batons to disperse protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 30, 2010. Thousands of garment workers rampaged through central Dhaka and clashed with police to protest what they consider an inadequate increase in the minimum wage rate. (AP/Pavel Rahman)

From Bangladesh to You

The connection between workers’ rights in the developing world and our world of work in America is closer than you think, writes Sabina Dewan.

Sabina Dewan

Let’s Rise to the Challenge on Labor Standards Article
Women work in a vegetable plant in Santiago Sacatepequez, Guatemala. (AP/Moises Castillo)

Let’s Rise to the Challenge on Labor Standards

International labor standards are an imperative that allows us all to compete on an even playing field, and enforcement efforts should be applauded, writes Sabina Dewan.

Sabina Dewan

Creating Just Jobs Worldwide Article

Creating Just Jobs Worldwide

A CAP event co-sponsored by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Business Council for Global Development examines how to create good jobs and worker-social protections to generate economic growth worldwide.

Wage Inequality Is a Global Challenge Article
Workers work on assembly line of shoes at Thuong Dinh Shoe factory in Hanoi, Vietnam, which produces shoes for domestic markets and for exports. (AP/Chitose Suzuki)

Wage Inequality Is a Global Challenge

The International Labour Office’s most recent report on wages shows why there is a global social, political, and economic imperative to combat wage inequality, writes Sabina Dewan.

Sabina Dewan

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