The role of employment in promoting the millennium development goals
Issues in Employment and Poverty, Discussion Paper No.18
Paper prepared under the joint ILO-UNDP programme
on ‘Promoting Employment for Poverty Reduction’
Argues that the MDG goal of reducing income poverty can be reached by raising the quantity and quality of employment. Urges to remove gender discrimination, improve maternal health, ensure universal access to primary education, reduce child mortality, and combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Includes empirical evidence on the importance of the employment-poverty nexus in a number of countries.
on ‘Promoting Employment for Poverty Reduction’
Argues that the MDG goal of reducing income poverty can be reached by raising the quantity and quality of employment. Urges to remove gender discrimination, improve maternal health, ensure universal access to primary education, reduce child mortality, and combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Includes empirical evidence on the importance of the employment-poverty nexus in a number of countries.