Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth: blogs, contributions, stories, summaries and tips
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
UN Goal targets:
- Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries
- Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
- Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
- Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead
- By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
- By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training
- Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms
- Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
- By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
- Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all
- Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries
- By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
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In mijn regionale krant BNDeStem lees ik een artikel over de Organto eerlijke banaan. Organto is bekend van het merk I AM Organic en heeft als slogan Eat the world better. Je vindt producten o.a. in de shops en kiosken van NS. Vaak denk ik bij dergelijke merken en slogans 'tja, de zoveelst...
A 4-day festival at different locations in Zomba City during the May Day public holiday. Explore the green historical city in Southern Malawi during four days of contemporary arts & culture.
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The Waste Project has had its official kick-off and the collectors have started collecting and sorting the slums' waste.
Duurzaamheid. Ik vind het een moeilijk begrip. Het is ook zo’n containerbegrip, dat je naar gelang je voorkeuren of (zakelijke) bezigheden op allerlei manieren kunt uitleggen. Dat maakt het ook zo lastig om duurzaamheid te definiëren. Duurzaam leven, hoe doe je dat? Duurzaamheid, een defi...
reNature is a Dutch initiative to make the world a little greener again. In many countries intensive and or monoculture agriculure have degraded the soil. Through training of farmers and local organisations reNature tries to change the way farmers use their land. Agroforestry is their solution. By p...
Er wordt al jarenlang -en recent niet anders- geschreven over de bedreiging die "toerisme" vormt voor onze planeet. Los van allerlei culturele bedreigingen (de nadelige effecten van massa-toerisme in opkomende voormalige ontwikkelingslanden) gaat het dan vaak om bedreigingen voor het milieu -en spec...
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Summary written in 2012-2013.
- Part A: Management of Human Resources
- Part B: Trends in HRM
- Part C: Work Analysis and Job Design
- Part D: Human Resource Recruitment and Planning
- Part E: Selection of Employees
- Part F: Employee Training
This summary of Strategy and Human Resource Management by Boxall is written in 2013-2014.
- Chapter A – The goals of HRM
- Chapter B – Strategy and the process of strategic management
- Chapter C – ‘Best fit’ or ‘best practices&rsqu...
- Chapter 1: An introduction
- Chapter 2: The wider responsibility of corporations
- Chapter 3: Normative theories to evaluate business ethics
- Chapter 4: Decision-making in the context of business ethics
- Chapter 5: Tools and techniques to manage business ...
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Parent relations of Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
Relations of Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 1: No Poverty
- Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being for People
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 5: Gender Equality
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 14: Life Below Water
- Goal 15: Life on Land
- Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
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