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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.
Human-Centered Economics:The Living Standards of Nations
Catch the recording of our event with Richard Samans discussing his latest book "Human-Centered Economics: The Living Standards of Nations." The book advocates for an economic model that harmonizes growth with societal welfare which, which according to Samans and fellow panelists Sung Min Rho, Didier Chambovey, Cédric Dupont is not only possible but essential.
Empowering Tech: Embracing Professor Gudela Grote’s Vision of Inclusive Innovation
Join us in celebrating International Women's Day in welcoming Professor Gudela Grote, from ETH Zurich specializing in Work and Organizational Psychology, as the newest Co-Chair of the TASC Platform. Explore her groundbreaking insights on the future of work, AI , and the critical role of diversity and inclusion in technology in our latest TASC Takes podcast
Bridging-Changes - Academy for Leadership in Practice
Bridging-Changes - Academy for Leadership in Practice
Accepting applications for “The Women Leading Well Experience”
Accepting applications for “The Women Leading Well Experience”
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.
INTERVIEW WITH GILBERT F. HOUNGBO, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, ILO
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.
TAKING stock: Trade Tools and Labour Outcomes
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.
AI, Resilience and the Future of Work
"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.
