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Submitted by GEC Team on Mon, 04/19/2010
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WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
We cordially invite you to participate in the GEC web seminar on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 1400 to 1600 UTC
Simultaneous cast at 0700 PDT, 1000 EDT, 1600 CET, 1930 IST
Full employment is an essential characteristic of inclusive growth. It is the most direct way to improve the well-being of the people, especially the most disadvantaged. In this webcast, Jesus Felipe will examine the recent experience of fast growing Asian countries and explain why full employment is both necessary and possible for nations committed to an equitable model of economic growth.
Jesus Felipe is the author of Inclusive Growth, Full Employment and Structural Change. Implications and Policies for Developing Asia (2009). He is Principal Economist, Head of the Strategic Research Unit, and Director of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute, in the Central and West Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines. He is also a Research Associate at Australian National University, Cambridge University, University of Missouri-Kansas City and University of Newcastle (Aust). For a Full Bio.
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April 19, 2010
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Submitted by GEC Team on Thu, 01/28/2010
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GEC News Bulletin -- Invitation to Live Webcast seminar with Rania Antonopoulos
WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
We cordially invite you to participate in the GEC web seminar on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 1500 to 1700 UTC
Simultaneous cast at 0700 PST, 1000 EST, 1600 CET, 2030 IST
Beyond loss of income, joblessness is associated with greater poverty, marginalization, and social exclusion; the current global crisis is clearly not helping. Rania Antonopoulos advocates public employment as a policy instrument, with particular attention to policies hat address female poverty. In this webcase she will discuss South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme, addressing issues related to income and job generation, provisioning of communities’ unmet needs, skill enhancement for a new cadre of workers, and promotion of gender equality by addressing the overtaxed time of women.
Rania Antonopoulos is Director of the 'Gender Equality and the Economy' program at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (USA), an expert advisor to UNDP and co-director of two global networks, the Gender Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG) and the Economists for full Employment (EFE). Her most recent publications include an ILO monograph, The Unpaid Work, Paid Work Connection. For a full bio.
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- SEMINAR 1: Right to Employment
- SEMINAR 2: Goal of Full Employment
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GEC Project Team
January 29, 2010
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Submitted by GEC Team on Thu, 12/03/2009
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WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
This e-conference will utilize a variety of methods to explore creative solutions to the problem of global employment, including presentations, panel discussions, webcasts and open forums.
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The WAAS/GEC forum extends a special welcome to WAAS Fellows in Africa and to all participants who are interested in the topic - “Youth and Employment in Africa”.
In Africa, 62% of its overall population is below the age of 25. There are 200 million youth (ages between 15 and 24 years, 2007). In Sub-Sahara Africa, 3 in 5 of the totally unemployed are youth (ILO 2006) and on an average 72% of the youth population live with less than US$2 a day.
The World Bank's report “Youth and Employment in Africa - The Potential, The Problem, The Promise” will serve as our background material for discussion. It contains facts of youth and labour markets in Africa, discusses past youth employment interventions in the region and argues for the need of an integrated approach to actions to tackle the youth employment issues.
The e-forum will bring people together to
- Discuss the World Report in the context of their own understanding on youth and employment in Africa.
- Create greater awareness of the unemployment situation in Africa and its global impacts.
- Call upon participants and employers to share their experiences and ideas on how they are helping to tackle the employment problems.
- Identify participants who will present/facilitate e-seminars in the future on special topics related to youth and employment in Africa.
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GEC Team
Dec 3, 2009
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Submitted by GEC Team on Mon, 11/16/2009
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GEC News Bulletin -- Invitation to Live Webcast seminar with Bernard Lietaer
WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
We cordially invite you to participate in the GEC web seminar
on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1530 to 1730 UTC
Simultaneous cast at 730 PST, 1030 EST, 1630 CET, 2100 IST
Full employment can be achieved by implementing practical methods already applied in countries such as Switzerland, Uruguay and Brazil. This two-hour seminar will explore monetary innovations for reducing unemployment that can be applied at the local and national level by governments and NGOs. It will be recorded as a webcast and hosted on the GEC conference site after the meeting.
Bernard Lietaer is a Fellow of the Academy with more than 25 years experience working on innovations in money systems. He was the co-designer of the convergence mechanism that created the Euro, the European single currency; he served as President of Belgium's Electronic Payments System; and was general manager and currency trader for the world's most successful currency fund. He is the author of 14 books, including Future of Money, translated in 18 languages.
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- GEC Introduction, Scope & Issues
- GEC Conference Papers
- Conference publication plan
- Learn how you can participate
- Enroll/Subscribe to the GEC conference
- Contact Form for feedback and questions
to GEC Project Team
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- CONFERENCE NEWS -- news about special conference events
- Conference Information
- Conference Announcements
- Media Articles & Reports
- HELP DESK & FAQ -- for queries and user information
- SPEAKERS CORNER -- for informal networking among participants
- SEMINAR 1: Right to Employment
- SEMINAR 2: Goal of Full Employment
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GEC PROJECT TEAM
November 16, 2009
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Submitted by GEC Team on Sun, 11/08/2009
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GEC News Bulletin -- Invitation to Live Webcast seminar with Gunter Pauli
WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
We cordially invite you to participate in the GEC web seminar
on November 14, 2009 at 1430 to 1630 UTC
Simultaneous cast at 630 PST, 930 EST, 1530 CET, 2000 IST, 2230 Singapore
Gunter Pauli – an entrepreneur, Fellow of the Academy and member of the Club of Rome – has just completed a massive research project to identify innovations that would shift business towards higher levels of competitiveness and sustainability, while generating millions of jobs through the creation of a platform for entrepreneurship. Four years of research has identified a portfolio of 100 innovations including whole systems models that have the potential to generate as many as 100 million jobs worldwide over the next 10 years. He will make a presentation and start off a discussion. The entire two-hour seminar will be recorded as an audio/video webcast and hosted on the GEC conference site after the meeting.
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To view & hear the webcast, all you need is a computer with speakers or headset
- (optional) microphone -- if you would like to also participate in the discussion
- (optional) webcam -- if you would like to be visible to other participants
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- GEC Introduction, Scope & Issues
- GEC Conference Papers
- Conference publication plan
- Learn how you can participate
- Enroll/Subscribe to the GEC conference
- Contact Form for feedback and questions
to GEC Project Team
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- CONFERENCE NEWS -- news about special conference events
- Conference Information
- Conference Announcements
- Media Articles & Reports
- HELP DESK & FAQ -- for queries and user information
- SPEAKERS CORNER -- for informal networking among participants
- SEMINAR 1: Right to Employment
- SEMINAR 2: Goal of Full Employment
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GEC PROJECT TEAM
November 8, 2009
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Submitted by GEC Team on Thu, 11/05/2009
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GEC News Bulletin -- Invitation to Live Webcast seminar with Randall Wray
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WAAS e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
We cordially invite you to participate in the first GEC web seminar on November 10, 2009
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L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in New York. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and the monetary theory of production. With President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky's approach to analyze the current global financial crisis. He is the author of Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies, 1990, and Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, 1998. He is also coeditor of, and a contributor to, Money, Financial Instability, and Stabilization Policy, 2006, and Keynes for the 21st Century: The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, 2008.
For a complete list of Professor Wray’s publications and links to working papers, click here
Professor Wray will make a presentation and start off a discussion on the prospects for full employment and the potential application of employment guarantee programs in USA and other countries.
His presentation will be followed by panel discussion.
The entire two-hour seminar will be recorded as an audio/video webcast and hosted on the GEC conference site after the meeting.
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What you need to participate
- To participate in the panel discussion – computer with webcam and skype audio or telephone access
- To view and listen to the seminar – computer with headset or speakers
- To listen to the seminar only – telephone uplink
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To participate in the meeting, please answer the following questions:
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| I have access to a computer to view the webcast video |
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| I have access to a computer with webcam to be visible to other participants |
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| If you will participate in the audio discussion on Skype, please give your skype name |
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| If you will participate in the audio discussion by phone, please give the country code and phone number on which you want to be contacted |
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Send your reply to GECteam@worldacademy.org
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- GEC Introduction, Scope & Issues
- GEC Conference Papers
- Conference publication plan
- Learn how you can participate
- Enroll/Subscribe to the GEC conference
- Contact Form for feedback and questions
to GEC Project Team
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- CONFERENCE NEWS -- news about special conference events
- Conference Information
- Conference Announcements
- Media Articles & Reports
- HELP DESK & FAQ -- for queries and user information
- SPEAKERS CORNER -- for informal networking among participants
- SEMINAR 1: Right to Employment
- SEMINAR 2: Goal of Full Employment
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GEC PROJECT TEAM
November 5, 2009
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Submitted by GEC Team on Sun, 10/11/2009
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e-Conference on the
GLOBAL EMPLOYMENT CHALLENGE
An inquiry into the root causes and remedy for the problem of unemployment
This e-conference will utilize a variety of methods to explore creative solutions to the problem of global employment, including presentations, panel discussions, webcasts and open forums.
Announcing the opening of GEC Session 2: The Goal of Full Employment
1. Is Full Employment a realistic and achievable goal?
This is the question that plagues and undermines the aspirations of youth, the dreams of an aging workforce, the will of policy-makers, the visions of futurists and the quest of economists for an ideal economic system. It expresses in a countless variety of questions that touch upon the essential nature of social reality.
2. Potential for Full Employment
- Is it theoretically conceivable and practically feasible to formulate a strategy that can eradicate the problem of unemployment globally within a 10 year time-frame?
- What social trends will enhance the prospects for achieving full employment in the future?
- How is the problem of unemployment related to the structure of society and is it within our capacity to change that structure?
- Philosophically, it is said that every problem created by human beings can be solved by human initiative. This principle is often described as the essence of the American spirit, responsible for its rise to global pre-eminence. Is this principle relevant to the issue of unemployment nationally and globally?
- It has been said that problems come to us for our progress. Is there truth in that statement with respect to the global employment challenge? If so, what is the progress humanity needs to make?
3. Obstacles to Full Employment
- What social trends will diminish the prospects for achieving full employment in the future?
- Is full employment compatible with mass production and other technological advances under the current global economic system?
- Is our social system governed by impersonal and intractable economics laws that dominate and compel us to submit or is it the creation of human beings who have the capacity to change what they have created?
- Why is the collective will of humanity apparently incapable of addressing an issue so central to the future well-being of our race?
4. Historical Perspective on Employment
- When did the problem of unemployment first arise and what conditions pertained before that time?
- Is there any historical precedent for believing in the feasibility of full employment?
- Have their been societies or periods in which unemployment was absent? If so, under what prevailing conditions? Are those conditions or the essence of those conditions applicable now?
- Are there any positive insights regarding a solution to unemployment that can be derived from the communist/socialist experiments of the 20th Century that are applicable to addressing the issue in future?
GEC Session 2 is intended to explore these questions to arrive at a theoretical and practical understanding of the potential for achieving full employment.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The GEC invites participants to submit papers for the seminar topics listed below:
1. The Right to Employment
2. The Goal of Full Employment
3. Youth Employment
4. Strategies for Employment Generation
5. Employment Challenges & Opportunities in Developing Countries
6. Employment Challenges & Opportunities in OECD Countries
7. Best Practices for Employment Generation
8. The Internet and Employment
9. Society, Social Structure & Employment
10. Population, Aging, the Counter-Aging Society and Employment
11. Entrepreneurship, Employment & Self-Employment
12. Education, Training and Employment
13. Immigration & Outsourcing of Employment in a Global Economy
14. Women & Employment
15. Global Governance & Employment
16. Psychological Dimensions of Employment
17. The Future of Work
18. Employment, Unemployment, Social Stability and Social Unrest
For more information on these topics see GEC Questions & Topics
Please send papers to gecteam@worldacademy.org
If you are responding to a specific question under this topic, please include the number of the subquestion in the subject of your message.
e.g. Subject: 2b Supportive social trends
This way people can respond to the general question or file their views on any of the four specific questions or even on specific subquestions.
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Submitted by GEC Team on Thu, 10/01/2009
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Non-Fellows may Enroll/Subscribe to the GEC Conference here
Discussion Paper 1: "Human Rights and Employment"
by Winston P. Nagan
Abstract: The right to employment influences every other human rights value. The actions of government influences the level of employment and thereby carries with it an obligation. To the extent that employment is one of the most important mechanisms for the allocation of purchasing power to the individual, the right to employment may be seen as the critical foundation of economic democracy. To the extent that economic survival is critically sustained by employment, it could be argued that the right to employment has the character of a fundamental human right.
Read and comment on this paper or reply by email to GEC1paper1@worldacademy.org
Discussion Question 1
Do you believe that ultimately a solution can be found to eliminate the problem of unemployment globally?
Please explain your reasons.
Submit your answer on the forum or reply by email GEC1question1@worldacademy.org
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