Expert Group Meeting on “Navigating an Insecure Future”

Date: Thu, Dec 3 - Fri, Dec 4 2020 | Webinar
Location: Online
Time: 7:00pm
Expert Group Meeting on “Navigating an Insecure Future”

The expert group meeting “Navigating an insecure future” brought together experts to review recent research on economic insecurity, its drivers, and implications. Presentations by invited experts addressed several key questions: What is economic insecurity? Do trends and concerns differ between developed and in developing countries? How has the COVID-19 crisis affected insecurity so far? How has the role of work in providing security changed? What countries have done better at addressing insecurity?

 

Over the last decades, changes in the world of work, globalization, and technological breakthroughs have benefitted many people but have also created disruption and put others at a disadvantage. These long-standing trends are compounded by evolving threats, such as climate change and pandemics, which expose the precarity of many people’s lives and the large degree of risk and uncertainty embedded in today’s society. Public institutions, services, and social protection systems are struggling to adapt to rapidly changing needs.

The expert group meeting “Navigating an insecure future” brought together experts to review recent research on economic insecurity, its drivers, and implications. Presentations by invited experts addressed several key questions: What is economic insecurity? Do trends and concerns differ between developed and in developing countries? How has the COVID-19 crisis affected insecurity so far? How has the role of work in providing security changed? What countries have done better at addressing insecurity?

Documents

Concept Note

Agenda

Expert bios

Report of the meeting


Presentations

Session I: The state of insecurity 


Session II: Assessing economic insecurity    


Session III: Economic insecurity and the world of work


Session IV: Political and social impacts of economic insecurity


Supplementary reading