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	 <title>Labour market gender gap: Two steps forward, one step back</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The gender gap in global labour markets showed some convergence in the earlier part of the last decade but increased after the crisis erupted in 2007, according to an ILO report produced in collaboration with UN Women. The picture varies considerably among regions.]]>
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	 <title>ILO to launch “Global Employment Trends for Women”</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to launch a report analysing the gender gaps in global labour markets.]]>
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	 <title>Wage growth slows globally despite increases in emerging countries</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[New ILO figures show a continuing slowdown in global wages in developed countries and some resilience in emerging economies.]]>
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	 <title>Inaugural Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO at the 10th International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Cooperative Forum on &quot;Role of Co-operatives in times of natural disaster&quot;, Kobe International Convention Centre, 28 November 2012]]>
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	 <title>What Does the World of Work for 1.2 billion Youth Look Like? Global Labour Markets and Youth Employment: A Vision for the Future, Lecture by Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, ILO</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Public Seminar at World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Centre Tokyo, 29 November 2012]]>
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	 <title>The ILO and Cooperatives:
A global perspective towards the International Year of Cooperatives
University of Kobe, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, International Labour Organization</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Kobe, Japan, 28 November 2012]]>
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	 <title>Talk on ILO Working paper on Rokin Banks, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director for Employment, ILO
To the Rokin Association &amp; Kinki Rokin</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Kobe, 26 November, 2012]]>
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	 <title>“The World at a Crossroads: The employment challenge facing the world today” Keynote Speech by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs Executive Director for Employment, ILO</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Rokin-ILO International Symposium 25th November, 2012, Osaka, Japan.]]>
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	 <title>Palestinians in Lebanon working under precarious conditions</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Restrictions in Lebanon do not exclude Palestinian refugees from the labour market but lead to exploitative conditions, a new ILO-EU study says.]]>
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	 <title>W4Y Newsletter </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Read the W4Y Newsletter to get updated on the progress of the Project. In the newsletter you may find the latest on where the project is in terms of survey implementation in each 28 target countries and in database development.]]>
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	 <title>Healing pharmacies</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.]]>
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	 <title>Global Youth Consultations</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO held events in more than 40 countries around the world from March to May 2012 to hear young people’s views on the alarming youth employment situation.]]>
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	 <title>ECLAC and ILO Predict that Unemployment Will Fall Again to 6.4% in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012 
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	 	<![CDATA[The two United Nations agencies indicate that there remain structural problems that have a negative effect on the labour market situation of young people.]]>
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	 <title>International labour Office comments on the World Bank’s “World Development Report 2013: Jobs”
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	 	<![CDATA[World Bank’s “World Development Report 2013: Jobs”, ILO 2 November 2012.]]>
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	 <title>Youth jobs count – but how? </title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The latest EU figures show a further increase in youth unemployment, but there has been some debate in the past over whether to express those levels in rates rather than ratios. What is the difference between the two, and which, if any, is a more precise measurement?]]>
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	 <title>Comments by M. Salazar-Xirinachs at Launching Event The World Bank’s 2013 World Development Report on Jobs</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Statement by Jose M. Salazar-Xirinachs at Launching Event of the Report organized by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and the World Bank, 
Bern, 1 November 2012.]]>
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	 <guid>http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_191716/lang--en/index.htm</guid>
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	 <title>Asia-Pacific: Quality and quantity of jobs dropping</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Slowing growth in many Asian countries has accentuated labour market challenges in a region that has the world’s largest youth population, and where precarious work is widespread.]]>
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	 <title>Cultivating the green shoots of rural areas</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO looks to harnessing the potential of the world’s rural areas as city dwellers in the developing world struggle to find work.]]>
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	 <title>ILO calls on G20 to live up to its promise to tackle the crisis</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO Director-General says G20 countries should stand by their commitment to take new, urgent measures in the face of deteriorating global economic conditions.]]>
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	 <title>Young and older workers, two sides of the same coin</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Many of the countries that are suffering from huge youth unemployment levels are also experiencing population ageing. Isn’t it time to start thinking of older workers as a category that deserves specific attention?]]>
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