Why is there greater policy space to propose a decent work agenda today than was the case before?International institutions with policy leverage, like the Bretton Woods institutions, find it relatively easier to examine the social consequences of economic policy today than they did earlier. This change provides a window of opportunity to an institution like the ILO to advance its own decent work agenda in a more internationally co-ordinated manner. The real possibility of integration of economic and social policy today has not come about for technical reasons alone, although it is true that this integration is more conceivable on theoretical grounds today than it was, say two decades ago. |
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