Focus on
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Global Employment Trends 2012
World faces a 600 million jobs challenge
The world faces the urgent challenge of creating 600 million productive jobs over the next decade, warns ILO in its annual Global Employment Trends report.
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Jobs crisis
Global youth employment crisis worsens
Young people are three times more likely to be unemployed than adults; worldwide over 75 million youth are looking for work.
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Social Protection
Social Protection Floor initiative
Social protection programmes can act as stabilizers mitigating the impact of economic crises on labour markets while contributing to maintaining social cohesion and stimulating aggregate demand.
Key resources
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Multilateral system
The ILO and the G20
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Monitoring the crisis
ILO Global Jobs Crisis Observatory
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Labour statistics
Short Term Indicators of the Labour Market
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ILO Helpdesk
For business on International Labour Standards
Policy frameworks
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The ILO Global Jobs Pact: A policy framework to accelerate a job rich recovery
Adopted by ILO constituents in June 2009, the Global Jobs Pact provides a set of policy measures centred on investments, employment and social protection.
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ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization
Adopted in 2008 by the representatives of governments, employers and workers from all ILO member States, the Declaration expresses the contemporary vision of the ILO’s mandate in the era of globalization.
