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	 <title>Youth Employment Video Contest: Youth labour migration “Reaping the benefits, minimizing the risks”	
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	 <title>The ILO‘s Approach of Entrepreneurship Development</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy, ILO]]>
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	 <title>The Impact of Trade on Employment and Poverty Reduction, UNCTAD Trade and Development Commission</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy, ILO]]>
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	 <title>Global unemployment rising again but with significant differences across regions</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Five years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis, labour markets remain deeply depressed. Unemployment has started to rise again as the economic outlook worsens.]]>
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	 <title>Launch of new Skills for Employment Knowledge Sharing Platform</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The new Skills for Employment Global Public-Private Knowledge Sharing Platform (Global KSP) shares the approaches and experiences that international organizations, governments, employers and workers have found effective in strengthening the links between education and training to productive and decent work.]]>
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	 <title>Van Rompuy: Growth and jobs are the ultimate goal of all reforms
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	 	<![CDATA[Ahead of the European Council meeting, European Council President, Herman Van Rompuy, addresses the International Labour Conference and says that the ILO has a key role to play in helping to address the challenges that Europe faces.]]>
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	 <title>A forum for the voice of youth</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[A new interactive on-line platform aims to engage young people and find solutions to the youth employment crisis.]]>
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	 <title>ITU Telecom World 2013 Young Innovators Competition</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The Young Innovators Competition seeks to foster innovative ideas amongst the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology.]]>
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	 <title>Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade, and Employment (ILO-UNCTAD)</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The edited volume “Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment” is the outcome of a technical cooperation project entitled “Assessing and Addressing the Effects of Trade and Employment” managed jointly by the European Commission and the International Labour Office (ILO) with funding from the European Union, and collaborative work between the ILO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The research findings in this volume emphasize the need to make agriculture (or re-establish it as) a high policy priority, particularly in the domains of development, trade, and employment.]]>
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	 <title>The Informal Economy and Decent Work: A Policy Resource Guide supporting transitions to formality</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[This practical Policy Resource Guide is the first initiative to bring together a synthesis of knowledge, policy innovations and good practices facilitating transition to formality.]]>
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	 <title>Remarks at launch event of the European Business Campaign: “Skills for Jobs”
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	 	<![CDATA[by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director General for Policy, ILO at the session on “Reaching impact and scaling up”]]>
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	 <title>Boosting economic dynamics and job growth: the potential of industrial policies</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO and Friedrich Ebert Foundation organise a joint workshop to exchange experience between Government representatives from African, Asian and Latin American countries, international organisations and researchers on the role of industrial policies in accelerating the dynamics of productive transformation for job growth.]]>
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	 <title>Youth guarantees: a response to the youth employment crisis?</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Employment Policy Brief]]>
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	 <title>Inter-Agency Workshop: Employment and Social Inclusion in a Green Economy</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The ILO organizes an Inter-Agency Workshop in collaboration with UNEP, UNIDO and UNITAR under the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) and the Green Growth Working Group of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED). Participants of this workshop will review and compare current approaches, tools and practices to assess and promote jobs and social inclusion in a green economy.]]>
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	 <title>Environmental sustainability is not a job killer
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	 	<![CDATA[ILO Green Jobs Programme coordinator, Peter Poschen,  outlines the business and job opportunities that could emerge from a shift to a greener economy.]]>
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	 <title>Skills mismatches hurt job creation prospects</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[The crisis has forced millions of workers to seek new jobs but their skills are often not those that employers are seeking, and this skills mismatch is driving up unemployment levels.]]>
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	 <title>Web Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: Benefits for All
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	 	<![CDATA[Tuesday, 12 February 2013 - Webinar convened by the ILO, the UN Global Compact Office and G3ICT]]>
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	 <title>ILO head in Latin America: More, but also better jobs are needed</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, highlighted the need to turn informal employment into decent jobs in the formal sector. He spoke during a Latin America visit that took him to Buenos Aires and Lima.]]>
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	 <title>ILO Chief: Less austerity, more investment needed to tackle youth jobs crisis</title>
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	 	<![CDATA[Failing to act on the youth jobs crisis would sow the seeds of social unrest and destroy hopes for sustainable growth. That is a cost the world cannot afford, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said at a conference on youth employment in Budapest.]]>
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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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