Asia’s rising rural wages
Steve Wiggins , Sharada Keats | 26 November 2025Rural wages are rising in Asia, and the strongest drivers are demographic changes and the growth of manufacturing.
▶“Youth power”: cashing in on Africa’s demographic dividend
Rob Vos | 24 November 2025Integrated approaches to empower young African women and men to take their place in a modernized agricultural sector are needed throughout the continent.
▶High stakes: African asylum seeker entrepreneurs in Israel
Ilana Pinshaw | 28 October 2025Of 48,000 African migrants in Israel, the majority are asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea. If it is done right, entrepreneurship can play a vital role in integrating these refugees into Israeli society and responding to market niches.
▶Why reducing inequality is an economic imperative
Stewart Lansley | 27 October 2025The shift from wages to profits has led to an increase in inequality over the last three decades.
▶The rise of finance undermines employment growth
Ken-Hou Lin | 14 October 2025The stagnation in labour demand in the US is linked to the rise of finance. Strategies to encourage long-term employment growth must be found in that direction too.
▶Trade openness still matters
Noel Gaston | 29 September 2025While the long-term benefits of freer trade for the domestic labour market seem indisputable, it is politically contestable over the short- and medium-run.
▶The pervasive and unfair costs of trade on workers
Íñigo Verduzco Gallo | 29 September 2025International trade can contribute to the creation of more and better jobs but not always, not for everyone, and not everywhere. Thirty years after the beginning of a global push for liberalization we are finally starting to understand the real co…
▶EPAs: can we expect more job creation?
Isabelle Ramdoo | 22 September 2025EPAs can be a good launchpad to foster more productive employment in Africa, but should not be an end in itself.
▶TTIP also affects developing countries
Owen Tudor | 22 September 2025The implications of TTIP for employment are uncertain for the EU and US, but also for developing countries.
▶The opposing forces of TTIP
Patrick Messerlin | 22 September 2025The bilateral setting of the TTIP makes its outcome subject to two specific opposing forces.
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