ILO is a specialized agency of the United Nations
- Child Labour
- Decent work
- Domestic workers
- Economic and social development
- Development aid
- Gender and development
- Globalization
- Poverty
- Rural development
- Sustainable development
- Employment promotion
- Employment security
- Equality and discrimination
- Forced labour
- Freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining
- Green jobs
- HIV/AIDS
- Labour administration and inspection
- Labour law
- Labour migration
- Millennium Development Goals
- Safety and health at work
- Skills, knowledge and employability
- Social security
- Tripartism and social dialogue
- Working conditions
- Youth employment
Poverty
Breaking the cycle of poverty involves creating new cycles of opportunity and local wealth creation. The ILO is developing an agenda for the community of work, represented by its tripartite constituents, to mobilize their considerable resources to create those opportunities and to help reduce and eradicate poverty. Poverty is not just a problem for the poor. World political and social stability and security is difficult to envision if such large numbers of people continue to be trapped in cycles of poverty or see few opportunities in a global system that seems discriminatory and unfair.
Key resources
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Working out of Poverty: Director-General's report
Focuses on the working poor and the poor who are excluded from work. Shows the 'decent work dividends' that accrue to families and societies as a whole through a concerted effort to attack poverty.
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Highlights
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Issue brief
Issue brief: Poverty reduction through tourism
May 3, 2011Hotels, Catering and Tourism (HCT) is one of the fastest-growing economic sectors in countries around the world. It can significantly contribute to social and economic development and to poverty reduction in least developed countries (LDCs).
News
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Guy Ryder: New direction needed if poverty is to be beaten
17 October 2012