Tag: Employment

Services Trade and Employment

| 7 June 2015
Trade, Discussion Notes | Tags: Employment, Global Value Chains, Services Trade
Driven by spectacular technological advances and the emergence and intensification of global value chains, trade in services has been the most dynamic part of global trade over recent years. All regions of the world have witnessed growth in services trade, albeit at different paces. Europe ... continue reading

Monetary Policy and Sustainability. The Case of Bangladesh

and | 31 May 2015
Monetary, Discussion Notes | Tags: Employment, Energy, Financial Inclusion
Central banks have wide ranging effects on the economy and society as a whole. Their decisions on monetary policy and sustainability are closely intertwined. Nonetheless, the links between the mandates, objectives and instruments of central banks and a broad sustainability agenda are rarely reflected in ... continue reading

Where Will All The Jobs Come From?

| 24 April 2015
Trade, Blog | Tags: Employment, Global Value Chains, Services Trade
In the last couple of years, a spate of magazines, articles and think-pieces have predicted a new age of automation (and robots) – one that means an increasingly stark picture for labour worldwide (see the BBC and The Economist). Even Barack Obama has been seen ... continue reading

Inside CETA: Unpacking the EU-Canada free trade deal

| 12 December 2014
Trade, Blog | Tags: Employment, Environment, ISDS, Subsidies
How are sustainable development objectives treated in the latest major preferential trade agreements?  In late September, the European Union and Canada released the long-awaited text of a bilateral free trade pact, five years after launching talks, and almost one year on from announcing they had ... continue reading

At Whose Service? Jobs and Services Trade in Developing Countries

| 17 November 2014
Trade, Blog | Tags: Development, Employment, Poverty, Services Trade, WTO
Services-led Employment Growth? Creating jobs to match their ever increasing, relatively young labor forces is probably the biggest challenge that developing countries are facing in the medium term. Reducing unemployment is perhaps the most effective tool to achieve a wide range of development goals, such ... continue reading