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Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development
Turning a Corner?
9781035348459 Edward Elgar Publishing
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Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development explores important environmental, economic and employment issues and policies for generating inclusive growth. Addressing the realities of ongoing climate change and biodiversity loss, it proposes solutions to these challenges.
Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development explores important environmental, economic and employment issues and policies for generating inclusive growth. Addressing the realities of ongoing climate change and biodiversity loss, it proposes solutions to these challenges.
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Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners, Rethinking Economic Transformation for Sustainable and Inclusive Development explores important environmental, economic and employment issues and policies for generating inclusive growth. Addressing the realities of ongoing climate change and biodiversity loss, it proposes solutions to these challenges.
This timely book takes a fresh interdisciplinary approach to transforming economic structures so as to increase the number of productive jobs and examines past and current development pathways to create a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient future. Providing policymakers and organizations with informed guidance, the expert contributors offer innovative solutions to pressing challenges, such as how developing countries can rethink policy instruments and economic steering mechanisms. They also examine how structural transformation can be used to promote growth and skills through the use of green industrial policies.
This invaluable read is a must for scholars, development practitioners and policymakers of sustainable and inclusive development looking for a comprehensive resource that can be applied today and for years to come.
This timely book takes a fresh interdisciplinary approach to transforming economic structures so as to increase the number of productive jobs and examines past and current development pathways to create a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient future. Providing policymakers and organizations with informed guidance, the expert contributors offer innovative solutions to pressing challenges, such as how developing countries can rethink policy instruments and economic steering mechanisms. They also examine how structural transformation can be used to promote growth and skills through the use of green industrial policies.
This invaluable read is a must for scholars, development practitioners and policymakers of sustainable and inclusive development looking for a comprehensive resource that can be applied today and for years to come.
Contents
Contents
1 Looking back, redefining the future: an overview of the state of play of green structural transformation and the factors critical to its success 1
Elina Scheja and Kee Beom Kim
2 Reframing structural transformation towards sustainable and inclusive prosperity 25
Antonio Andreoni
3 Green structural transformation and rural employment: what role can nature-based solutions play? 49
Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song
4 Coupling environmental and social sustainability: countries’ trajectories, pathways and policies towards sustainable job creation 75
Antonio Andreoni
5 Avoiding the decent work deficits of the circular economy 103
Anna Barford
6 Services and the green transition in developing countries 123
Patrik Ström
7 Carbon pricing and the labour market 143
Marco Fugazza
8 Social protection and active labour market policies for inclusive green structural transformation 173
Jana Bischler, Marie-Christina Dankmeyer, Christina Behrendt, Marcelo Cuautle Segovia and Karina Levina
9 Falling through the cracks? Skilling, reskilling and upskilling for job transitions 205
Hae Kyeung Chun
1 Looking back, redefining the future: an overview of the state of play of green structural transformation and the factors critical to its success 1
Elina Scheja and Kee Beom Kim
2 Reframing structural transformation towards sustainable and inclusive prosperity 25
Antonio Andreoni
3 Green structural transformation and rural employment: what role can nature-based solutions play? 49
Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song
4 Coupling environmental and social sustainability: countries’ trajectories, pathways and policies towards sustainable job creation 75
Antonio Andreoni
5 Avoiding the decent work deficits of the circular economy 103
Anna Barford
6 Services and the green transition in developing countries 123
Patrik Ström
7 Carbon pricing and the labour market 143
Marco Fugazza
8 Social protection and active labour market policies for inclusive green structural transformation 173
Jana Bischler, Marie-Christina Dankmeyer, Christina Behrendt, Marcelo Cuautle Segovia and Karina Levina
9 Falling through the cracks? Skilling, reskilling and upskilling for job transitions 205
Hae Kyeung Chun
