52nd Commission for Social Development

11-24 February 2014  Policy session: Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all 

Speeches and statements

  1. ILO Statement to the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Empowerment needed to tackle growing inequality and vulnerability

    12 February 2014

    The world needs a commitment to full employment and decent work that safeguards human and workers’ rights in order to move the development agenda forward.

Focus on: Poverty, social integration, full employment and decent work

  1. Book

    Wage-led Growth: An equitable strategy for economic recovery

    This original and extensive study examines the causes and consequences associated with the falling wage share and rising inequality in income distribution, relating to both aggregate demand and labour productivity.

  2. Book

    Assessing Green Jobs Potential in Developing Countries: A Practitioner’s Guide

    The knowledge of how the transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy will affect employment, especially underlying job movements, is vital to informing policy, yet there are few comparable studies for developing countries.

Commission outcomes

  1. Report of the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Report and resolutions of the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    21 February 2014

UN reports

  1. Report of the Secretary-General to the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Further implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002

    16 December 2013

  2. Report of the Secretary-General to the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Promoting empowerment of people in achieving poverty eradication, social integration and full employment and decent work for all

    04 December 2013

  3. Report of the Secretary-General to the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Mainstreaming disability in the development agenda: towards 2015 and beyond

    04 December 2013

  4. Report of the Secretary-General to the 52nd Commission for Social Development

    Implementation of the World Programme of Action for Youth

    03 December 2013