It’s Jobs, Stupid!
The World Bank has been tracking the world's progress against poverty since the late eighties, but the release of 2008 data was the first time in which all regions…
Jobs as a Gateway to Prosperity
Global spotlights are on jobs. Headlines last Friday highlighted the US jobless rate, which fell to 7.8 percent, the lowest level in four years. There was a sense of…
Building hospital gurneys at the Tautmann factory in Turkey
Jobs as a Scorecard
Employment numbers released today by the World Bank shed some light on the resilience of job creation and job preservation heretofore exhibited in most emerging countries. According to the…
Sewing Success: How Textile Jobs Help Reduce Poverty
Whenever we think of textile workers nowadays, we tend to think about cheap labor—particularly women sewing in overcrowded factories. In fact, the textile industry nurtures the narrative of how maquiladoras in…
Emerging Markets Lead in Job Recovery
One of the most distressing aspects of the frail economic recovery from the global crisis has been lagging job creation. In developed and developing countries alike, millions of people…
Are Emerging Markets Leading the Way in Job Creation?
With a few exceptions, industrialized nations are still struggling with unemployment, unable to recover completely from the 2008 economic crisis. In the U.S. things seem to be improving as…
Small Is Beautiful in Job Creation
Investing more on roads, bridges and schools is an essential part of President Obama's American Jobs Act. If this is important in the current U.S. context, the role of…
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Market volatility, fears of a double-dip, lack of investor confidence and social demonstrations from Wall Street to Main Streets around the world are just some of the headlines we…