Comment and analysis

2013

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   Report on the Fishing industry

   Caught at sea: fighting forced labour in the fishing industry

   31 May 2013

   The fishing sector is an important source of employment, income and food production for many countries. But there are serious incidents of abuse in some fisheries and fishing vessels. By Beate Andrees, head of the ILO’s Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour.

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   Post-2015 Development Agenda

   Why jobs and livelihoods matter

   20 May 2013

   With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaching, Aurelio Parisotto, ILO Senior Economist, explains why jobs and livelihoods should be at the centre of a post-2015 development agenda.

3. 

   Child labour

   Protecting children from having to work

   30 April 2013

   Social protection measures can help reduce the incidence of child labour, says Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

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   Economic crisis

   Crisis shockwaves reverberate in European public sector

   24 April 2013

   The public sector in many European countries has been hit hard by the economic crisis, leading to big cuts in spending, jobs and wages. ILO Senior Economist, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead, analyses the impact on the public sector, of policy responses to the crisis.

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   Wage trends

   Are wages around the world converging?

   18 April 2013

   As the world’s emerging economies change the dynamics of the global economy, Philippe Egger, Director of the ILO Bureau of Programming and Management, explores the challenges of comparing wages across countries.

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   Banking crisis

   Financial cooperatives: A safe bet in a crisis

   12 April 2013

   A new ILO book says that financial cooperatives fared better than the big investor-owned banks during the economic crisis.

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   Teleworking

   The strong case for working remotely

   25 March 2013

   New technology has made teleworking easier and more efficient but there has been resistance to the idea from unexpected quarters. There is, however, a strong business case for working from home. By Jon Messenger, ILO senior research officer and Laura Addati, ILO Maternity protection and work-family specialist.

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   Public and private sectors

   One labour market, one labour law?

   18 March 2013

   With outsourcing, the distinction between the public and private sectors is blurring in many areas – raising questions about whether there should be one labour law for all workers. By Miguel Ángel Malo, senior economist at the ILO’s International Institute for Labour Studies.

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   Green Jobs

   Environmental sustainability is not a job killer

   27 February 2013

   ILO Green Jobs Programme coordinator, Peter Poschen, outlines the business and job opportunities that could emerge from a shift to a greener economy.

2012

1. 

   Skills

   Wanted: Local workers for the oil and gas industry

   12 December 2012

   The oil and gas industry is facing increasing shortages of skilled workers. This could be an opportunity for oil- and gas-producing countries to boost the involvement of their local workforce.