The Global Policy Network provides a common link for members to share basic information and analysis regarding the socioeconomic developments that will influence labor markets around the world.
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Development, Trade and Labor Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Is investment in the garment industry in Africa a helpful development tool? The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has, since 2000, provided free access to the U.S. market for specified goods produced or processed in the poorest African countries. Review materials from this GPN-sponsored conference on AGOA, the Garment Industry, Labor Rights and African Development, held on January 10, 2008.
ANSA:
Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism in Southern Africa
The Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism in Southern Africa (ANSA) initiative of the labour movement of the region has published a book that provides the building blocks for a common perspective on alternative policies and strategies in Southern Africa, which can bring about people driven, sustainable, human development. (October 2007)
Good Jobs Index
The Good Jobs Index (GJI) intended to measure the quality of jobs in a country over time or to compare countries. (Proposal posted November 2006)
Revisiting NAFTA: Still not working for North America's workers
When it was passed in 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement was sold to the people of each nation on the promise that it would bring large net benefits in better jobs and faster growth. Twelve years later, it is clear that the costs to workers outweighed the benefits in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. In a new, three-country report, Revisiting NAFTA examines the impact the trade agreement has had so far on the distribution of income, wealth, and political power in each of these nations.
Workers, Employers and the Distribution of Israel's National Income—Labor Report: 2005
(PDF, 2 MB) by Dr. Shlomo Swirski and Etty Konor-Attias, Adva Center, May 2006. First of a new series of annual reports on labor issues. The present report presents data on salaries of workers, by gender, economic sector, and social group, data on new jobs, and more.
The Global Policy Network's pilot study of privatization includes reports from five countries. (April 2006)
The Global Policy Network provided technical assistance to ORIT in the creation of a Hemispheric Platform for Labor. (Read more.) (2005-06)
The Price of Occupation: The Cost of the Occupation to Israeli Society by Shlomo Swirski, The Adva Center. This book examines the political, economic and social price to Israel of the continued occupation of Palestine.
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: Labor Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South Africa, a book co-released by GPN and EPI, March 2005.
Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development, a report from EPI (U.S.), February 2005
Status of Human Rights of Columbian Union Members, January-August 2004, a report from ENS (Columbia).
Workforce Development Study: A study commissioned by the Ford Foundation that examines the factors that destroy or create good jobs. The studies, conducted in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia and South Africa, also examine the informal economy and its role in development. These studies are being compiled into a book which will be released in February 2005.
The high price of "free" trade: NAFTA's failure has cost the United States jobs across the nation, a report from EPI (U.S.), November 2003
Three GPN research studies commissioned for the Globalization and Labor Markets in Latin America conference, October 2003
Report of the Survey of Women Workers' Working Conditions in Industry, a report from SARDI (India)
Un nuevo panorama de violencia contra los trabajadores sindicalizados en Colombia, Enero 1º - Mayo 15, 2003 (A new trend of violence against unionized workers in Colombia, January 1 - May 15, 2003), a report from ENS (Columbia)
Finacial Hardships Imposed by IMF, Not Result of Turkish Vote for Peace (March 2003)
GPN pilot study on banking (March 2003)
Human
Rights of Public Servants, A Panoramic View,
a report from ENS (Columbia)
Los Derechos Humanos De Los Servidores
Públicos, Una Mirada Panorámica,
informes de ENS (Columbia)
Domestic
Demand-Led Growth, A New Development Paradigm: Why It Is Needed and How
to Make It Happen,
a paper presented at the Alternatives to Neoliberalism conference sponsored
by the New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, May 23 - 24, 2002 in Washington,
DC by Thomas Palley, Director, Globalization Reform Project, Open Society
Institute.
Export
Processing Zones and the Quest for Sustainable Development: A Southern
African Perspective,
an article from Herbert Jauch, Labour Resource and Research Institute
(LaRRI), first published in the November 15, 2002 edition of The Namibian.
The
Big Privatisation Debate—African Experiences,
by Herbert Jauch, Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI), Namibia.
The New Zealand Experiment, 1984 - 1999, a report from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, describes why that country's neoliberal experiment failed, and how the country's current government is working to reestablish a balanced set of social democratic policies.
An evaluation of NAFTA, the North American
Free Trade Agreement, on its seventh anniversary, NAFTA
at Seven contains reports written by economic analysts from the United
States, Mexico, and Canada.
[Para leer este informe en español, clic
aquí.]
A conference report from the founding convention in Hamburg in March 2000 summarizes the discussions that took place.
A March 2000 report describing important areas for future GPN research.
Rebuilding the Caribbean: A Better Foundation for Sustainable Growth
by Robert E. Scott, EPI (U.S.), March 1999
en español: Reconstrucción de la región del Caribe: Bases más firmes para un crecimiento económico sostenible
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