Such research is essential to enable the ILO to promote a more coherent global dialogue to achieve integrated policies within the international community for economic and social development. For example, policy frameworks currently being developed by international institutions should accord a prominent place to employment creation, improvements in the quality of employment and social protection, and the development of labour market institutions that promote basic rights at work and social dialogue. These aspects should be central to any comprehensive framework which seeks to integrate economic and social policies. This research programme will necessarily be multi-sectoral and will have to cover several biennia. It will have theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions.
Conceptual work can identify different hypotheses.
Methodologically a strategy for decent growth means bringing together different instruments - legal, social, economic and institutional. An empirical approach will be needed to identify appropriate policy frameworks in countries with different economic structures and at different stages of development. This research will touch upon entirely new areas. The Institute will work closely with different ILO and external researchers in pooling and stimulating ideas in these areas. The second component of the programme will examine the role of legislation, regulation, institutions and social policies in promoting decent work.