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November 2008
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Executive summary:World of Work Report 2008
17 November 2008
Income inequalities have been growing significantly within countries over the past two decades or so. This new report from the International Institute for Labour Studies presents a timely assessment of this issue, based on new data and economic analysis and with full technical annexes. It looks at the extent of this phenomenon and ...
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Responding to the impact of economic crisis - the task ahead for the ILO and the OECD
17 November 2008
Juan Somavia, Director General of the ILO, and Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD spoke today to the ILO’s Governing Body on their organizations' roles in the current economic and social crisis. Angel Gurría cited recent OECD estimates that there could be around 10 million more unemployed in the OECD area by 2010.
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Financial crisis
ILO Director-General looks to G20’s next step on social impact of crisis
16 November 2008
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia, today issued the following statement regarding the extraordinary meeting of leaders from the G20
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Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and Growth in Africa"
14 November 2008
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Heather Grady, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and Growth in Africa"
14 November 2008
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Olubanke King- Akerele, Foreign Minister of Liberia. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and Growth in Africa" in Monrovia on 8-9 September 2008
14 November 2008
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Jordan Ryan, UN Resident Coordinator in Liberia. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and Growth in Africa" in Monrovia on 8-9 September 2008
14 November 2008
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Samuel Kofi Woods, II, Minister of Labour. Speech to the High-Level Forum on "Working Out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and Growth in Africa"
14 November 2008
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H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia. Speech to the 'High-Level Forum on "Working out of Poverty: Decent Work Approach to Development and growth in Africa" in Monrovia on 8-9 September 2008
14 November 2008
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Mary Robinson, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Speech to the High-Level Forum on the Millennium Development Goals at the UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September 2008
14 November 2008