News

June 2012

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   Social protection expands despite crisis, ILO-World Bank report says

   07 June 2012

   A new ILO-World Bank report and online data tool shows that social protection systems expanded in many parts of the world between 2008 and 2010.

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   Analyzing national responses to the global economic and social crisis

   07 June 2012

   On 12 June, Swiss Federal Counselor and Minister of Economic Affairs Johann Schneider-Ammann will present a new ILO-World Bank database to the International Labour Conference in Geneva. For the first time, the new database lists and examines the policy responses taken by 77 countries since the start of the financial and economic crisis.