News
January 2012
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BBC: ILO Employment Report More Pessimistic Than Last Year
24 January 2012
BBC TV World Business Report interviews ILO Employment Specialist Kee Beom Kim in Bangkok to discuss the employment figures released in the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report and explain what can be done to help boost job creation in the year to come.
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BBC: Jobs Crisis Continues Unabated
24 January 2012
BBC TV World Business Report interviews ILO Economist Steven Kapsos about "astonishing" numbers published in the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report, including the need for 600 million jobs to be created over the next ten years, and the fact that over 900 million workers are living below the two dollar a day poverty line.
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BBC Reports on "Worrying Jobs Challenge"
24 January 2012
Citing global employment figures and the possibility of a "jobless generation", BBC TV World Business Report interviews Moazam Mahmood, Director of the ILO's Economic and Labour Market Analysis Department.
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Press Conference Coverage: Global Employment Trends 2012
23 January 2012
At a press conference to launch the Global Employment Trends 2012 report, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ILO Executive-Director of the Employment Sector, spoke about a global employment challenge to create 600 million jobs over the next decade.
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Press Conference Coverage: Global Employment Trends 2012
23 January 2012
At a press conference to launch the Global Employment Trends 2012 report, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, ILO Executive-Director of the Employment Sector, spoke about a global employment challenge to create 600 million jobs over the next decade.
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Global Employment Trends 2012
23 January 2012
Three years after the global economic crisis devastated markets, wiped out savings, ruined businesses and disrupted the lives of billions of working people, the International Labour Organization’s annual report on global employment has concluded that the deep consequences of the crisis are continuing into 2012. The report also calls for a global response to create hundreds of millions of new, productive jobs in the next ten years.
December 2011
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Macroeconomics of growth and employment: The case of Turkey
15 December 2011
Employment Working Paper No. 108
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Questions and answers: ILO disability inclusion resource manual
01 December 2011
December 3rd is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. To mark the date, the ILO has developed an online version of the ILO Disability Inclusion Toolkit and Manual – a collection of tools and information resources – to assist ILO staff in including disabled people in their areas of work. “Disability inclusion is everybody’s work!” ILO interviews Debra Perry, Senior Disability Technical Specialist and editor of the resource manual.
October 2011
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Global Employment Trends for Youth: 2011 update
26 October 2011
The report presents the latest global and regional labour market trends for youth and examines whether or not the situation that young people face in the labour market has improved or worsened over the year and a half since the release of the special edition of the Global Employment Trends for Youth, August 2010 on the impact of the economic crisis. One year later, with an environment of growing uncertainty in the economic recovery and stalled recovery in the job market, the report draws the unfortunate conclusion that the situation facing youth in the labour market has not improved and that prospects for the future are not much better.
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Water in the Green Economy in Practice: Towards Rio+20
The event placed a special focus in showcasing already successful projects of how water can be a major contributor to developing a green economy. At the end of the conference, UN-Water issued a draft best practice guide to actions, instruments and policies to progress towards a green economy for sustainable development and poverty eradication. The ILO participated and contributed to the conference.