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Lessons from the crisis – challenges for the future: The ILO gives its first comprehensive assessment of Germany’s policy to tackle the...

Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germany’s labour market held up well compared with other countries. Although the economy shrank by 4.7 per cent in 2009, more than in most other countries,...

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Brazil’s growth-with-equity strategy key to beating the crisis, says ILO

A new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) says Brazil’s innovative income-led strategy led to a faster than expected recovery from the financial crisis, with employment creation returning to positive territory as early as February...

Opening address at the Succeeding in Business Programme Training of Trainers and Enterprises

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Sta Rosa Laguna, Philippines

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and International Women’s Day: 100 years on

The first International Women’s Day commemorated a demonstration by women workers in New York in 1857. But what established the modern celebration of International Women’s Day in history, was the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York...

Making the crisis recovery work for women!

ILO to mark 100th international women’s day

World Social Forum: Decent Job Creation as a Way of Tackling the Crisis

Regional Workshop on Employment for Peace, Stability and Development in Africa

Official unemployment in Azerbaijan decreased by 0.24%

Youth join green jobs push in China

Yang Shumbo, a Chinese electronic sciences student invented a device to save electricity. He developed this into a business under a pilot project of the Greener Business Option (GBO), an ILO Green Jobs Programme initiative. GBO aims to encourage...

Asia Pacific job recovery lagging economic growth, says ILO report: ILO Global Employment Trends 2011; cites concerns including inflation,...

MANILA (ILO News) – With global unemployment, as officially measured, at record highs for the third straight year since the start of the economic crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned that weak recovery in jobs is likely to continue...

Asia Pacific job recovery lagging economic growth, says ILO report: ILO Global Employment Trends 2011; cites concerns including inflation,...

BANGKOK (ILO News) – With global unemployment, as officially measured, at record highs for the third straight year since the start of the economic crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned that weak recovery in jobs is likely to continue...

Asia Pacific job recovery lagging economic growth

ILO Global Employment Trends 2011 cites concerns including inflation, youth unemployment, working poverty.

ILO Global Employment Trends 2011

ILO report warns weak jobs recovery to continue through 2011 - youth employment a world priority

With global unemployment, as officially measured, at record highs for the third straight year since the start of the economic crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned in its annual employment trends survey that weak recovery in jobs is...

Eight countries meet in Jakarta to exchange experiences on how to increase youth employment in Asia and the Pacific

Representatives of governments, workers, employers and specialists from eight countries in Asia and the Pacific are meeting in Jakarta from 25 – 28 January to discuss ways to increase youth employment in the region.

ILO to launch annual report on Global Employment Trends 2011

BANGKOK (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization is to issue its annual report, “Global Employment Trends: The challenge of a jobs recovery”, on Tuesday 25 January 2011.

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ILO to launch annual report on Global Employment Trends 2011

The ILO is to issue its annual report “Global Employment Trends: The challenge of a jobs recovery”, on Tuesday 25 January 2011.

ILO-Bappeda Kupang to identify constraints to employment growth in NTT

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Provincial Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) will organize a training workshop on employment diagnostic analysis from 18 – 20 January 2011 at Kristal Hotel, Kupang,...

Indonesia to participate in the ILO’s Green Jobs Project in Asia

Climate change is an issue of high priority for Indonesia. Like many other countries in Asia and the Pacific, Indonesia has also voluntarily committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions or carbon intensity per unit of GDP by 2020. Indonesia is...

Social protection policies to face the crisis and for growth

Are domestic markets the answer to the global finantial crisis? Comments based on the experience of Latin America