Monitoring International Labor Standards: Human Capital Investment: Summary of a Workshop (2003)

Summary: The Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards (CMILS) provides expert, science-based advice on monitoring compliance with international labor standards. As part of its mandate, CMILS is charged with exploring the linkages between labor standards compliance and human capital investment. Consequently, CMILS convened a workshop on February 27, 2003, to bring international experts together to explore this issue. The workshop had two purposes: (1) to explore the linkage between country-level investment in education and training and the capacity to attain (and exceed) international labor standards, and (2) to raise awareness among policymakers about the importance of this linkage in developing long-term strategies for labor standards compliance.