Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80879 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/107
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Globalization has led to a precarization of labour, which especially manifests in the unstable working conditions, a lower labour share in national income as well as in a growing income inequality, with the exception of some countries with high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is noted; the addition of a goal for full employment in a reformulation of the MDGs in 2005 did not lead to a change in focus in official development assistance (ODA). If the growing concern for employment and inequality is taken seriously, a refocus of development efforts is necessary, combining a greater share of development assistance for employment and productivity enhancing activities with a change in national and international economic and financial policies, so as to make employment creation (together with poverty reduction) an overarching goal.
Subjects: 
employment
inequality
development assistance
development goals
JEL: 
J21
J38
O15
O19
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-573-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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