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Growing Support for Living Wages
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Growing Support for Living Wages

Following a Roundtable co-convened in January 2024 by IDH, TASC Platform, and the World Economic Forum, Marcel Vernooij, Director of Public Sector Engagement at IDH shares updates on recent advances on the definition and operationalization of living wages at the ILO, and the road ahead for ILO, IDH and all stakeholders in global supply chains.

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Shifting Perspectives: Escaping the limitations of our linear minds
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Shifting Perspectives: Escaping the limitations of our linear minds

We are living in perilous times. The global community met in September at the United Nations Global Assembly in New York, to check on the progress of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the halfway mark towards the 2030 deadline, it’s clear that we are well off track. Governments, the UN and the non-profit sector must do more -but I also believe that the global business community has a critical role to play. Specifically, to drive the breakthrough innovations that are going to tackle some of the social and environmental challenges. That’s not a challenge confined to the corporate R&D departments. The most successful organisations will tap into the innate human ingenuity of their entire workforces.

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