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Labour market

Disadvantaged women

More and better jobs are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – especially for women and young people

Fake history – why an otherwise excellent movie disappoints

A film concerning the partition of India is based on a conspiracy theory

Labour relations

Nightmarish conditions

Workers in India’s informal sector use rather simple technology, so productivity is low

Decent work

Misleading dichotomy

India’s informal sector is the backbone of the economy

Development studies

Don’t get distracted by administrative concerns

The academic field of development studies must react to trends like the rise of emerging markets, climate change and migration

Employment

Pakistan needs jobs

Reasons to doubt the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor will massively boost employment in Pakistan

Debt relief

G20 plans do not go far enough

The number of critically indebted countries has risen

AIIB

Lacking standards

Civil-society organisations complain that AIIB does not take account of human-rights violations

Law of the sea

Pivoting Philippines

ASEAN leaders have long resisted China’s claims to the South China Sea, but the Philippines’ new president is strangely ambivalent

2030 Agenda

G20 support for SDGs

G20 must specify how it will support SDG agenda

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