The job guarantee as a tool in the fight against poverty
Job guarantee programmes – whereby the government guarantees a job to anyone willing and able to work – not only have the ability to reduce poverty and retain jobs in times of crisis, they also have the potential to create jobs in areas of unmet, yet urgent, social need that are currently undersupplied by the market, such as the greening of the economy or the care economy.
Join the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, experts on poverty and employment policy, as well as leading job guarantee advocates and practitioners, as they unpack the role of the job guarantee in the fight against poverty and the conditions under which it can be successful.
Anmeldung
Moderated by:
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Panellists:
Aye Aye Win, President of the International Committee for October 17th
Kate Philip, Programme Lead on the Presidential Employment Stimulus, South Africa
Mito Tsukamoto, Chief of the Development and Investment Branch (DEVINVEST) of ILO’s Employment Policy Department
Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics, Bard College; Director, OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative; Research Scholar, Levy Economics Institute