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" When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps. "

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" Stark inequality, poverty, and unemployment are driving increased social unrest and, consequently, social and economic risk. Environmental deterioration may well intensify social inequality. "

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" Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries. "

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" If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years. "

" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "

" It's never been clearer that unrestrained market forces do not produce the kind of societies we aspire to - economically stable and socially inclusive, where citizens have access to secure jobs with the dignity of a fair wage and a welfare safety net. "

" Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. "

" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "

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" Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product. "

" It seems evident that the IMF has learned nothing from its inequality-inducing policies during the 1980s debt crises in Latin America nor from its recession-deepening response to the East Asian crisis of the late 1990s. In both regions, the IMF has become synonymous with making bad situations worse. "

" We know how to build economies. It requires investment in jobs. The biggest medium-term multiplier is infrastructure. "

" Labour is not a commodity. "

" A new business model based on old principles of social justice where people matter - now that's a revolutionary way to reduce inequality. "

" T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. "

" The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back. "

" If you think the dominant orthodoxy - shrink your economy, render workers jobless, impoverish families, and still grow - is an oxymoron... then you would be right. "

" If there are not jobs or adequate forms of social protection, there is not enough income to create the consumption base that drives demand and sustainable economic growth. "

" You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world. "

" The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics. "

" We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy. "

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