World’s pension funds vulnerable to climate risks, study reveals

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Euractiv.com (23.10.2018) 87% of assets managed by the world’s 100 largest public pension funds are yet to undergo a formal climate risk assessment, according to research published on Tuesday (23 October), with only 15% of them adopting a coal exclusion policy.

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América Latina y el Caribe: CEPAL y OIT recalcan importancia de transitar hacia un modelo más sostenible de desarrollo para generar nuevas oportunidades de empleo

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ilo.org/americas (23.10.2018) América Latina y el Caribe es la región más biodiversa del mundo, pero está perdiendo su riqueza natural con el deterioro ambiental que provoca el actual estilo de desarrollo. De allí que resulta urgente una transición hacia un modelo más sostenible tanto desde el punto de vista medioambiental como laboral, lo que permitiría acceder a nuevas oportunidades y mejoras en el empleo, señalan la CEPAL y la OIT en una nueva publicación conjunta.

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[Policy Brief] WHO/Europe: Ensuring access to medicines: How to stimulate innovation to meet patients' needs?

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euro.who.(October 2018) This policy brief is one of a series on addressing market and policy failures in the pharmaceutical sector that was prepared for the Austrian EU Presidency. It aims to inform discussions about stimulating more meaningful productivity in terms of R&D. More specifically, it explores how R&D efforts can be steered to areas of unmet clinical needs and how efficiency in the R&D process can be increased. It also explicitly considers concrete options for strength

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Les petits jobs, moteur de l’économie canadienne

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Le Temps (26.10.2018) Plutôt que de privilégier le développement des «emplois d’avenir», qui seraient des métiers hautement qualifiés, les Canadiens, et notamment les Québécois, misent depuis longtemps sur les petits jobs. Avec succès

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The future of work: Switzerland’s digital opportunity

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McKinsey (25.10.2018) New technologies can give Switzerland’s economy a much-needed productivity boost, but bold digital transformation and skills development are imperative.  Digital technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) could boost Swiss productivity by around one percentage point a year in the period to 2030.

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Deutschland: Digitalisierung der Arbeit: Wie gelingt der Blick in die Zukunft?

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vorwärts (11.10.2018) Im Bundesarbeitsministerium wird ab sofort in einer Denkfabrik Digitale Arbeitsgesellschaft zur Zukunft der Arbeit geforscht. Ziel: Kluge Vorschläge an die Politik.

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germany
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ILO: As tech disrupts our jobs, it's not too late to turn pain into gain

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ILO  (22.10.2018) Workers will need a magic mix of skills to survive the technological revolution. T he World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018  gives some cause for encouragement. The business perspective on how technology will affect growth and job creation is becoming more positive, the survey results show.

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España: La sanidad universal no acaba de llegar a todos los sin papeles

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El Pais (25.10.2018) Los extranjeros que se encuentran en situación irregular en España siguen a la espera de que se concrete su acceso universal a la sanidad. El Congreso convalidó en septiembre el decreto ley aprobado en julio por el Gobierno para garantizar esta asistencia sanitaria, pero ahora se está tramitando como ley en el Congreso.

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Sécu : fin d'un compromis historique | Alternatives Economiques

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Les dangers du contrôle budgétaire par l'Etat des dépenses de Sécurité sociale et les raisons de l'équilibre financiers français.

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Europe
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France: Cinq questions sur le « revenu universel d’activité » annoncé par Emmanuel Macron

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lemonde.fr (15.09.2018) Autrefois présentée sous le nom de « versement social unique », cette future prestation sociale regroupe des enjeux colossaux. Explications.

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