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October 2010

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   Interview on line

   Trade and employment in the global crisis: Lessons for the future

   25 October 2010

   The International Labour Office (ILO) and the World Bank have jointly organized a conference on "Trade and Employment Post-Crisis: Global Shocks, Structural Changes and Policy Responses" on October 25. Held in the lead up to the G20 Summit in Seoul on 11-12 November, the conference discussed the role of open markets in supporting growth and job creation. Interview with ILO experts on "Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis".

June 2010

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   Video

   Marion Jansen on Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis

   21 June 2010

   An ILO study on “Trade and Employment in the Global Crisis” was launched at an ILO discussion on “Globalization and Employment: Global Shocks, Structural Change and Policy Response”. Marion Jansen, co-ordinator of the ILO’s Trade and Employment Programme and co-author of the report, discusses how cross-border trade has acted as a transmission channel of the crisis to export-oriented economies, consequently affecting employment, and the effect of policy responses during the crisis on trade and employment.

October 2009

1. Video

   ILO and WTO Launch Joint Study on Globalization and Informal jobs in Developing Countries

   12 October 2009

   A joint study from the International Labour Organization and the WTO has found that high incidence of informal employment in the developing world curbs countries ability to benefit from trade openings. ILO Director General, Juan Somavia, and WTO Director General, Pascal Lamy, opened a meeting in Geneva to launch the study.

April 2008

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   News

   UNCTAD XII: The opportunities and challenges of globalization

   18 April 2008

   In a statement to the Twelfth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Accra, Ghana (21-25 April), the ILO calls on the international community to grasp the opportunities offered by globalization by creating an environment conducive to full and productive employment and decent work for all. It focuses on the synergies between the work of UNCTAD and the ILO, with particular emphasis on building an international response to the risks of a marked slowdown in global growth following the financial turmoil sparked by the US financial situation and the sharp rise in food prices worldwide.

March 2007

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   Video

   Somavia and Lamy discuss ILO/WTO report

   27 March 2007

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy led a panel discussion on a recent report issued jointly by the ILO and the WTO that calls for greater coherence amongst trade, labour and social policies.