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May 2012

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   Video News Release

   Jobs recovery threatened by fiscal austerity

   01 May 2012

   The world needs to create 50 million jobs to return to pre-crisis employment levels, according to the ILO's World of Work 2012 report, but fiscal austerity and tough labour market reforms threaten the scenario for a true jobs recovery.

December 2010

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   Video interview

   Global Wage Report 2010/2011: An Interview with the ILO's Manuela Tomei

   15 December 2010

   With the launch of the ILO's Global Wage Report 2010/2011, ILO TV interviews Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL). Based on an analysis of wages in 115 countries, the report says the financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009. The increasing discrepancy between low-wage and high-wage earners has had a deleterious effect on consumption worldwide. The interview highlights how several national recovery schemes and measures have worked to buffer wage stagnation and avoid lay offs, thus hastening a sustainable economic recovery.

October 2010

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   World Statistics Day - 20 October

   ILO launches new statistics database: Short term indicators of the labour market

   20 October 2010

   Timely information on the labour market and consumer prices are indispensable for drawing up appropriate policy responses to the global economic crisis. To facilitate this, and also to commemorate World Statistics Day on 20 October, the ILO Department of Statistics has launched a new short-term indicators database.

January 2010

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   Video

   Record Global Unemployment in 2009

   27 January 2010

   The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends report. "The increase that we've seen is the largest since we began tracking these global and regional trends in 1991 and in some countries we actually know this increase in unemployment is the largest they've seen since the Great Depression," said Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson, who directed the publication of the report.

March 2009

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   The 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Durban, South Africa

   11 March 2009

   The ISI organises biennial meetings of statisticians from all over the world that is organized in different cities. The ILO is an institutional member of the ISI, although it is not directly involved in the planning or organizing of the session.

December 2008

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   International Conference of Labour Statisticians

   Countries approve ground-breaking means to measure today’s world of work

   05 December 2008

   The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians ended with the adoption of new international statistical standards on child labour and working time as well as new guidelines for the measurement of decent work, labour underutilization and volunteer work.