How feasible are policy interventions for promoting decent work?Economic growth itself produces decent work. This fact can be demonstrated both across space and over time. It is however also true that one does not need to wait for the expansion of per capita income to make improvements in the dimensions of decent work. There is demonstrable scope for interventions to reduce decent work deficits in each of the four dimensions, given the ultimate "constraints" that resource levels and their growth may impose on countries. |
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