Globalization and the continuing global economic melt-down is hitting workers the hardest.It also highlights how the macro-economic policies of the past few decades have downgraded the meaning of decent work and remunerative wages.
The current growth model considers labor as a production cost that must be as low as possible to raise competitiveness and profits.
We need to change the current global growth model . Of-course this a model that has created huge amounts of wealth, but it is concentrated in very few hands. This model has failed to generate the type of inclusive growth we were led to believe it would.
We need a different type of growth model that is environmentally sustainable and focused on people. That is, a development model whose main aim is to increase the general well-being of people and reduce inequalities; that measures success by the number of good quality and people friendly jobs created, and not the percentage of GDP growth.
The current growth model considers labor as a production cost that must be as low as possible to raise competitiveness and profits.
We need to change the current global growth model . Of-course this a model that has created huge amounts of wealth, but it is concentrated in very few hands. This model has failed to generate the type of inclusive growth we were led to believe it would.
We need a different type of growth model that is environmentally sustainable and focused on people. That is, a development model whose main aim is to increase the general well-being of people and reduce inequalities; that measures success by the number of good quality and people friendly jobs created, and not the percentage of GDP growth.
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