Policy Priorities for International Trade & Jobs
Channel: World Bank Group Jobs
Date: 2012-09-24

The JKP recently hosted an OECD/World Bank seminar introducing the results of the ICITE (International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment) project.

Panelists discussed several questions: What is the relationship between open trade and employment? What stimulus opportunities can be created by opening markets? How are open markets and trade, accompanied by appropriate employment and social policies, powerful engines for growth, productivity and improved employment outcomes? 

The International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment (ICITE) is a joint undertaking of ten international organizations--launched and coordinated by the OECD, and including the World Bank--created to accurately answer these questions by developing a better empirical understanding of how trade interacts with employment and what policies are required to maximize the benefits of trade for labor markets.