İnformation on Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Roughly half the world’s population
still lives on the equivalent of about US$2 a day. And in too many places,
having a job doesn’t guarantee the ability to escape from poverty. This slow
and uneven progress requires us to rethink and retool our economic and social
policies aimed at eradicating poverty.
A continued lack of decent work
opportunities, insufficient investments and under-consumption lead to an
erosion of the basic social contract underlying democratic societies: that all
must share in progress. The creation of
quality jobs will remain a major challenge for almost all economies well beyond
2015.
Sustainable economic growth will require
societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs that
stimulate the economy while not harming the environment. Job opportunities and
decent working conditions are also required for the whole working age
population.
Source:United
Nations, www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/economic-growth/
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8.1. Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries.
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8.10. Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
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8.2. Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors.
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8.3. Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.
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8.4. Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead.
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8.5. By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
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8.6. By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.
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8.7. Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.
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8.8. Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment.
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8.9. By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products.
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8.a. Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries.
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8.b. By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization.
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8.1.1 Annual growth rate of real GDP per capita
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8.2.1 Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person
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8.3.1 Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex
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8.4.1 Material footprint, material footprint per capita, and material footprint per GDP
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8.4.2 Domestic material consumption, domestic material consumption per capita, and domestic material consumption per GDP
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8.5.1 Average hourly earnings of employees, by sex and economic region
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8.5.2 Unemployment rate, by sex, age, economic region and location
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8.6.1 Proportion of youth (aged 15–24 years) not in education, employment or training
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8.7.1 Proportion and number of children aged 5–17 years engaged in child labour, by sex and age
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8.8.1 Fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 workers, by sex
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8.8.2 Level of national compliance with labour rights (freedom of association and collective bargaining) based on International Labour Organization (ILO) textual sources and national legislation, by sex and migrant status
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8.9.1 Tourism direct GDP as a proportion of total GDP and in growth rate
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8.9.2 Employed persons in the tourism industries
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8.10.1 (a) Number of commercial bank branches per 100,000 adults and (b) number of automated teller machines (ATMs) per 100,000 adults
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8.10.2 Proportion of adults (15 years and older) with an account at a bank or other financial institution or with a mobile-money-service provider
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8.a.1 Aid for Trade commitments and disbursements
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8.b.1 Existence of a developed and operationalized national strategy for youth employment, as a distinct strategy or as part of a national employment strategy