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Asian Employment Forum: Promoting productivity to benefit all

Increasing labour productivity is crucial for a country’s economic growth and overall competitiveness. It is also a vital tool for creating quality jobs and reducing poverty, since productivity gains can lead to higher wages, better working...

Asian Employment Forum: Youth employment: “We are not the problem, we are the solution”

According to the latest figures Asia’s 378 million-strong youth labour force accounts for more than one in five of the region’s total labour force and 58 per cent of the global youth labour force. Although the proportion of young people in the...

Press release of the Ministry of Finance (MoF)- ILO provides a grant assistance of US$3 million to the Government of Nepal.

The Government of Nepal and the International Labour Organization (ILO) signed the implementation agreement in Kathmandu today for the "Employment for Peace Building through Local Economic Development" (EmPLED) project. The three-year, US$3 Million...

The Government of Nepal and the International Labour Organization (ILO) - Local Economic Development Programme for Dhanusha and Ramechhap...

The Government of Nepal and the International Labour Organization (ILO) signed the implementation agreement in Kathmandu today for the "Employment for Peace Building through Local Economic Development" (EmPLED) project. The three-year, US$3 Million...

Azerbaijan: New Government Programme Will Create More and Better Jobs.

"The State Programme on the implementation of the National Employment Strategy for 2007-2010 outlines the measures the Government is planning to take in the field of employment creation in the coming years", announced the Minister of Labour and...

ASEAN faces challenges to ensure sustainable growth, says new ILO report

To ensure sustainable growth and build a thriving community by 2015, Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must increase labour productivity and narrow development gaps between members.

National meeting to promote employment in Cambodia

Ways to promote employment in Cambodia will be the subject of a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh this week, attended by representatives of the Cambodian government, the ILO and other international organizations including the United Nations Development...

UNDP Administrator calls for urgent measures to create new jobs and reduce widespread poverty in Africa: Decent Work "at the heart of...

UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis, speaking at the ILO's 11th African Regional Meeting here, has called for poverty reduction strategies that "fully integrate the employment dimension," adding that "Decent Work is at the heart of development and has...

Speech at ILO/OECD Joint Seminar on Designing Effective Employment Strategies through Local Economic Development in China

By Ms Constance Thomas, Director, ILO Office for China and Mongolia

11th African Regional Meeting (Addis Ababa, 24-27 April 2007): The power of dialogue: When words combine with actions

The old adage goes "actions speak louder than words", but when it comes to governance, words are essential. A new report prepared for the ILO's African Regional Meeting on 24-27 April, shows how an ILO project targeting seven enterprises in two...

Global Employment Trends for Women 2007: ILO study warns on the feminization of working poverty

More women then ever before are in work, but a persistent gap in status, job security, wages and education between women and men is contributing to the "feminization of working poverty", according to a new report by the International Labour Office...

Global Employment Trends 2007

The ILO says in its annual Global Employment Trends (GET) report that the number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth.

ILO releases Global Employment Trends 2007: Unemployment, slower growth continues to affect South East Asia and the Pacific

The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historic high in 2006, despite strong global economic growth

Global Employment Trends 2007: Global unemployment remains at historic high despite strong economic growth; Modest gains in reducing...

The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends released today.

The European Globalisation adjustment Fund (EGF)

The European Globalisation adjustment Fund (EGF) is a new instrument which will provide personalised support to workers who have been made redundant as a result of trade liberalisation, so that they can either remain in employment or find quickly a...

New ILO study says youth unemployment rising, large increases in Pacific, South-East and South Asia

A new ILO report shows that the number of unemployed youth aged 15 to 24 rose over the past decade, with large increaces in the Pacific, South-East and South Asia.