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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.

The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), highlights the multiple crises and existing trends that are shaping the world of work. He emphasizes the importance of human-centered policies, working together, and prioritizing social justice to achieve a sustainable and equitable future.

While international trade has created opportunities and lifted incomes in many instances, it has caused disruptions to labour markets and encouraged the lowering of labour standards in others. Poverty wages, forced and child labour and other longstanding labour challenges persist in global value chains, even as new risks emerge from geopolitical, digital and green transitions. In the context of a fast-moving regulatory landscape, this piece takes stock of various trade policy tools being used to tackle labour and human rights challenges in supply chains.

"Cooperation in a Fragmented World," the topic of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, marked the end of a "year of shocks and upheaval," as TASC Platform Co-Chair, economist and Professor Richard Baldwin, describes it. Baldwin, who has been a regular attendee at the forum, sat down with the TASC Platform team to share his takeaways from the Annual Meeting in January.

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