There is an urgent need to coordinate an international response to the major financing gaps affecting social protection systems around the world.
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The World Bank is bringing back its flagship annual report on the ease of doing business worldwide after a data manipulation scandal marred the last version, prompting the bank to scrap the project in 2021. There’s a new brand, a revised methodology, and a reformed mission focused on capturing a more honest snapshot of conditions for the private sector.
Waiting to see – World Bank’s scandal-hit ‘Doing Business’ seeks redemption with revamp | Devex
ILO conference on water, this most basic of all basic commons we have!
There has been a lot of buzz about how AI might eventually replace lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?
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The Reality of Aid:
Throughout the network’s 30-year existence, issues surrounding aid and development have evolved into a more chaotic web of complications, prompting deeper injustices and poverty. Despite and because of this, any door of opportunity must be seized to magnify the calls of the people for rights-based, people centered development and for quality financing in areas concerning public services and climate justice, among others.
Read ‘The Reality of Aid”s new Report
Economic growth, poverty reduction, and climate action are deeply interlinked: none can move ahead without the other. So why isn’t more happening?
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Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
Workers drill holes in the roof of a building where refugees, denied the legally provided shelter, are protected from snow, rain and wind. This is Belgium
On this International Women’s Day, workers around the world call for a gender-transformative New Social Contract that prioritises equality, inclusion, peace and democracy.
International Women’s Day 2023 – International Trade Union Confederation (ituc-csi.org)
Zucman and Wier published a new study on what multinational corporations did with their profits made outside their own country. In 2019 one trillion USDollars went to tax havens!
They also note that multinational profits grew faster than global profits!
Read the interesting study!
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