This Poverty in Focus is being launched to mark important events for the Global South that will take place in Brasilia: the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) and the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) summits. The International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), whose headquarters is in...

Este One Pager descreve a justificação econômica por trás da promoção de "empregos verdes" e da adoção de uma abordagem de "empregos públicos", a partir das experiências recentes da África do Sul e da Índia.

Public works and public employment programmes (PEPs) have long been considered a staple of social assistance. For the most part, though, they have been designed as ?safety nets? in the context of counter-cyclical programme interventions and responses to shocks. In some cases they have also...

Public works and employment programmes have long been considered a staple of social assistance. For the most part, though, they have been designed as short-term ?safety nets?. While, in some cases, the focus has also been on reducing poverty or addressing structural unemployment challenges,...

In the context of the economic and environmental challenges that the world is facing today, there have been calls for a Global Green New Deal (see, for example, UNEP/ILO/IOE/ITUC, 2008). Such calls have highlighted the employment-creation benefits of ?green? investments, mainly those aimed at...