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5th UN Conference on Least Developed Countries

5 March 2023 / / 0 Comments

In the first week of March, the international community will gather for the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha. The conference takes place in the context of multiple crises that have hit LDCs far harder than richer and more resilient countries. It coincides with the SDG midterm, and by definition, no group of countries is as far from SDG achievement as LDCs. The conference presents a significant opportunity to mobilize more and more effective support for LDCs. The international community must seize it.    

Read Bodo Ellmer’s article

Today’s Wall Street Oblivion Worse than it was in 2008

28 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

The years leading up to the stock market crash in December 2008 were a classic example of an economic disaster that never should have happened. A minority of financial experts had cited obvious signs of a seriously weakening economy. Yet the leaders of our most prestigious financial institutions, and the government agencies that were supposed to regulate them, were oblivious to the dangers.

Read the article

Towards a WTO anchored in SDGs

27 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

The WTO faces an existential crisis, despite a reasonable outcome at the Twelfth Ministerial Conference. The one way by which the WTO can resuscitate itself is to make sure that the negotiating agenda is anchored in the SDGs rather than in the narrow interests of its most powerful members. The changing role of the State must also be factored in by the WTO.

Read South Centre’s policy paper

The global South Debt Disaster

24 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

The Global South is enduring its worst debt crisis in decades. Unless there is immediate relief, any progress made on tackling extreme poverty risks being wiped out.

Read the paper by Grace Blakeley

On the involvement of social partners: collective bargaining or social dialogue

22 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

The European Commission is not yet very clear on how it wants to ensure the involvement of social partners.

Christophe Degryse explains how and what

You don’t have to be intelligent to become rich

21 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

But then, what is needed?

Highest earning men aren’t especially intelligent. Why? – Big Think

World Day of Social Justice

20 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

On this World Day of social justice, ILO Director general explains why social justice is crucial for our future:

ILO Director-General – why we need greater social justice | The Future of Work Podcast

Strengthening the World Health Organisation

17 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

New research paper from the South Center:

The World Health Organization (WHO) should act as the directing and coordinating authority in global health but it has been steadily marginalized over time by design, through criticism as an inefficient organization, the reduction of assessed contributions and consequent impoverishment, and the proliferation of “new” international health agencies to which WHO has been compelled to cede operational space. This paper discusses how such marginalization of the WHO is in the interest of the dominant actors in global health, and leads to the neglect of health as a development issue. Today the global health system is more fragmented than it was when the WHO was established in 1948.

Social Security and the Informal Sector: look at Africa

15 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

Ninety percent of global Small and Micro Enterprise (SMEs) business and more than fifty percent of all employment happens in the informal economy.

Often dismissed by the establishment due to its fluid and amorphous nature, it is clear that as South Africa and the continent battles high unemployment, especially youth unemployment, there is a huge opportunity for state and private sector support and investment into this sector.

Harnessing the energy that drives this thriving sector is a far more appropriate response than whipping it with punitive law enforcement. One of the best ways to begin would be to support the design of appropriate social security systems to enable enterprise owners and workers in the informal economy to build up financial security for the futures of themselves, their businesses and their families. Building social security builds Decent Work and better societies worldwide.

Read the article by Isobel Frye

Union Strategies for winning minimum living wages

14 February 2023 / / 0 Comments

An interesting ITUC report to learn about strategies for decent living wages

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