The labor market is the economy.
Akholi advises governments, multilateral institutions, and multinational employers on the structural questions beneath every growth strategy: where work is created, who is equipped to do it, and what the state can actually change.
Midtown Manhattan. Capital concentrates in a handful of blocks; labor does not follow automatically.
Research, not commentary.
Every position we publish is traceable to primary data and named methodology. We would rather be slow and right.
The offshoring wage floor has stopped falling
Three decades of arbitrage assumed an inexhaustible supply of cheaper labor. The data no longer supports that assumption in any major delivery geography.
What governments get wrong about skills forecasting
Ministries forecast the jobs they wish existed. We examine eleven national forecasts against realized employment and find a consistent directional bias.
Global capability centers and the hollowing of the middle
The GCC model moved judgment work offshore, not only transaction work. The consequences for the receiving economies are not what was promised.
Demographic arithmetic and the 2040 labor gap
Fertility decline is now the binding constraint on growth in fourteen of the twenty largest economies. The policy window is narrower than commonly stated.
What we do.
National Workforce Strategy
Diagnostic, target operating model, and implementation sequencing for ministries of labor, finance, and education.
Global Capability Design
Location strategy, capability tiering, and the honest total cost of distributed delivery for multinational employers.
Labor Market Diagnostics
Primary-source country assessments built on employment microdata rather than survey sentiment.
Institutional Advisory
Standing counsel to multilateral and donor institutions on program design, measurement, and evaluation.
Executive Education
Closed-door briefings for boards and cabinets on the structural forces reshaping their labor supply.
Expert Testimony
Legislative and regulatory testimony grounded in published, defensible, independently reproducible method.
Most workforce policy is a forecast dressed as a plan. The distinction is the entire job.Phil Hatch, Founder, Akholi