Comment and Analysis

  1. © ILO/Joseph Fortin 2024

    Fair economy

    Cooperatives’ considerable clout in the fight against child labour

    14 July 2014

    The coop economy, worth around US$2.5 trillion, plays its part in helping to eliminate child labour – a problem that, although in decline, still affects 168 million children worldwide.

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    Business and development

    Improving conditions for women workers has a domino effect

    11 March 2014

    Providing training, health-care and childcare to female workers has an impact that stretches beyond the factory floor.

  3. © Peter Parks / AFP 2024

    New ILO Publication

    Inequality is not inevitable

    10 February 2014

    A new ILO book shows that the growing gap between rich and poor is only partially associated with technological change. The divide is mostly the result of economic and institutional policies that preceded the global economic and social crisis and were exacerbated by it.

  4. Op-Ed

    Reducing inequality will boost economic growth

    24 January 2014

    This oped has appeared in several leading newspapers around the world.

  5. Comment by Guy Ryder

    Child labour is no child’s play

    08 October 2013

  6. © Angelos Tzortzinis/ AFP 2024

    Making Migration Work

    New thinking on labour migration needed

    02 October 2013

    As a High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development is taking place in New York, ILO Director General Guy Ryder discusses ways to improve labour migration governance for the benefit of all.

  7. © Jiang Qianlan / XINHUA 2024

    World Tourism Day

    Tourism, poverty reduction and gender equality

    25 September 2013

    On the occasion of World Tourism Day (27 September), ILO Senior Tourism Specialist Wolfgang Weinz and ILO Senior Gender Specialist Susan Maybud talk about the role that tourism can play in achieving poverty reduction and gender equality.

  8. Article

    Only Fair: Social justice must be at the foundation of Arab economic reforms

    17 September 2013

    By Nada al-Nashif and Zafiris Tzannatos

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    Op-Ed

    Boosting demand is the goal, so how do we get there?

    05 September 2013

  10. Fighting forced labour

    Question and answers on Work In Freedom programme

    15 July 2013

    The 5-year joint DFID/ILO programme aims to prevent over 100,000 girls and women from South Asia from falling victim to child and labour trafficking.