Videos

  1. Place employment at centre of economic strategies, says ILO Director-General

    28 October 2013

    Representatives of the ILO's Governing Body gathered at a High Level meeting to discuss key issues facing the world of work. Launching the discussion, the ILO's Director-General Guy Ryder spoke about the state of the world's economies and the difficult environment facing enterprises and workers in the real economy. He pointed to growing evidence showing how economic strategies with a central focus on employment can sustain global growth, boost investment and create more and better jobs.

  2. How to beat a crisis: Interview with Argentinean Vice President

    18 May 2012

    In 2001 Argentina defaulted on its debt and ended the parity of its currency with the US dollar. The South American country plunged deeper into crisis, but within months economic growth set in. We asked Argentine Vice President Mr Amado Boudou if Eurozone countries can learn from Argentina how to beat the crisis.

  3. Global Employment Trends 2012

    23 January 2012

    Three years after the global economic crisis devastated markets, wiped out savings, ruined businesses and disrupted the lives of billions of working people, the International Labour Organization’s annual report on global employment has concluded that the deep consequences of the crisis are continuing into 2012. The report also calls for a global response to create hundreds of millions of new, productive jobs in the next ten years.

  4. ILO Director-General interviewed at the European Parliament

    14 September 2011

    Following his address to an extraordinary meeting of the European Parliament Conference of Presidents, ILO Director-General, Mr. Juan Somavia, was interviewed saying "the real economy must take the driver's seat of the global economy, with a financial system at its service.

  5. Excerpts from ILO Director-General address to the European Parliament

    14 September 2011

    "The real economy must take the driver's seat in the global economy, with a financial system at its service" Mr. Somavia told members of the European Parliament during an address in Strasbourg.

  6. Global Wage Report 2010/2011: An Interview with the ILO's Manuela Tomei

    15 December 2010

    With the launch of the ILO's Global Wage Report 2010/2011, ILO TV interviews Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL). Based on an analysis of wages in 115 countries, the report says the financial and economic crisis cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009. The increasing discrepancy between low-wage and high-wage earners has had a deleterious effect on consumption worldwide. The interview highlights how several national recovery schemes and measures have worked to buffer wage stagnation and avoid lay offs, thus hastening a sustainable economic recovery.

  7. Celso Amorim, Minister of External Relations, Brazil addresses the 99th International Labour Conference with a brief introduction from Gilles de Robien, ILC President

    14 June 2010

  8. An interview with Celso Amorim, Minister of External Relations of Brazil

    14 June 2010

  9. The ILO's Director-General Juan Somavia on the Economic Crisis and Jobs

    16 February 2010

    The ILO's Director-General, Juan Somavia was interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers Public Sector Research Centre, as part of its Government & Global CEO report, launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2010.