The crisis must provide the trigger for a wholesale reform of the global economic order. As such it
could be a turning point for the goal of achieving sustainable development and social justice. The
central objectives of a new economic architecture should be shared prosperity with decent jobs
and income for all. Indeed, the period prior to the financial crisis was characterised by a certain
amount of GDP growth, but that failed to generate decent jobs and to extend benefits to working
people and the poor. A new global economic order must promote fair distribution of wealth
created and resources generated in the economy, based upon the centrality of decent work as a
mechanism for employment generation, social protection, social dialogue and rights at work...

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