Comment and analysis
2022
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ILO InfoStory
Collective bargaining for an inclusive, sustainable and resilient recovery
21 September 2022
The COVID-19 crisis starkly underlined the importance of collective bargaining. Discover how collective agreements negotiated during the pandemic protected workers, safeguarded business continuity, and paved the way for a future with decent digital work.
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ILOSTAT blog
New ILO database updates work-related indicators to meet latest standards
05 September 2022
The framework on work statistics has been widely publicized over the years, particularly to data producers and policymakers, as it was designed to improve labour market and gender analysis. Here is the ILOSTAT solution to handling the impacts of revised definitions occurring on different schedules across the globe.
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ILOSTAT blog
Breaking the bias for better gender data
13 July 2022
Generating high quality statistics relies on eliminating gender bias at all stages of the production process. This blog looks at how gender bias occurs in statistics and what the ILO is doing to support efforts to minimize it.
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ILOSTAT blog
New ILO database highlights labour market challenges of persons with disabilities
13 June 2022
There are an estimated 1 billion persons with disabilities around the world, or 15 per cent of the global population. Most of them are of working age. New labour market indicators are now available on ILOSTAT that reveal the many challenges faced by persons with disabilities compared with persons without when it comes to the world of work.
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ILOSTAT blog
Inflation more than doubled between March 2021 and March 2022
10 May 2022
The annual rate of inflation worldwide, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), accelerated to 9.2 per cent in March 2022, up from 7.5 per cent in February 2022, 6.8 per cent in January 2022 and 6.4 per cent in December 2021.
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GB roundup
Highlights of the 344th session of the ILO Governing Body
30 March 2022
The Governing Body of the International Labour Organization concluded on 25 March. ILO News discussed the key elements with Dimitrina Dimitrova, Deputy Director of the ILO’s Official Meetings, Documentation and Relations Department.
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ILO InfoStory
ILO programme implementation 2020-21
30 March 2022
New report offers detailed information on the impact of ILO work on people’s lives throughout 2020 and 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Asia-Pacific labour market insights
E-formalization: A Korean success story
25 March 2022
An ILO report Digital solutions and formalization: E-formalization case study on the Republic of Korea highlights the role digitalization has played in Korea’s formalization success story and provides a series of valuable experiences for other countries in the region.
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ILOSTAT blog
COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals: Reversing progress towards decent work for all
21 March 2022
The pandemic wreaked havoc on people’s lives and societies, but how far did it set the global community back in reaching the SDG targets related to decent work and economic growth?
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ILOSTAT blog
Over 2 million moms left the labour force in 2020 according to new global estimates
08 March 2022
New global data covering 189 countries and territories expose the motherhood penalty faced by millions of women around the world in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.