Sabina Dewan

Promoting just jobs and economic mobility in Africa helps President Obama fulfill the promise he made last year. It also creates new opportunities for investment and new markets for American products and services in a region of almost a billion people.

By helping to raise living standards, "Just Jobs" act as a vehicle for inclusive economic growth. Just jobs provide people with appropriate compensation, healthcare, pensions, labor rights and opportunities for economic mobility.

India's new prime minister needs to focus on policies that create inclusive economic growth.

The United States must put policymaking and legislative muscle behind good job creation. As the president himself noted in the State of the Union address, "The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by; let alone to get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all."

Countries need to make quality employment the cornerstone of their economic growth strategies.

The destiny of the American labor movement depends on awakening within its ranks a belief in shared prosperity beyond U.S. borders.

Governments around the world including the United States, multinational corporations, and international development and human rights organizations expend valuable resources on women's empowerment programs in developing nations such as India.

Sabina Dewan details why state-owned enterprises need to operate just like any other business in this proposed free trade region and suggests ways to make that happen.

The Great Recession highlights deficiencies in social protection systems that should be in place to promote broad-based economic growth.

Countries in both the Global North and Global South must get behind an agenda that focuses on the creation of "just jobs" for the global economy.