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January 2022
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Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub
ILO launches new online database on trade agreements that include labour provisions
26 January 2022
The new database is a one-stop source for information on labour provisions in more than 100 regional trade agreements covering about 140 economies.
July 2021
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Video
Japan, ILO earmark $2.2-M to restart small Philippine firms hit by pandemic
23 July 2021
ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Market Edge in a live interview with ILO Enterprise Development Specialist Hideki Kagohashi talked about a recently launched ILO and Japan project to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 2020
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Policy brief
COVID-19 and global supply chains: How the jobs crisis propagates across borders
29 June 2020
This brief investigates the international propagation through global supply chains of the demand and supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis. It provides estimates of the number of jobs in manufacturing supply chains that are at risk as a result of those disruptions.
April 2019
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Video
ILO-EU stakeholders’ forum on freedom of association, collective bargaining, trade and employment
11 April 2019
The video captures highlights of the Stakeholders’ forum on presentation of outputs of the ILO-EU collaboration on freedom of association and collective bargaining and on trade and employment in the Philippines.
November 2018
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Blog
How a river crossing turned South-South questions into answers
27 November 2018
You take your life in your hands when you cross the Makona River. For women entrepreneurs in these three countries, such risks are their livelihood. It’s a tough trade.
September 2017
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Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean
China trade, investment and projects create 1.8 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean
07 September 2017
The first research carried out on the impact of economic relations with China on the volume and quality of employment in the region highlights the lack of knowledge on the subject, and sheds light on a relationship that has intensified and is taking on “growing complexity”.
February 2017
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Round table
Making trade more inclusive
28 February 2017
Didier REYNDERS, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto AZEVÊDO, Director-General of the WTO, and Guy RYDER, Director-General of the ILO, discussed ways to make trade more inclusive, including labour provisions in trade agreements. Guy Ryder underlined ILO's standpoint in his keynote address.
July 2016
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UNCTAD 14
Policy coherence needed to turn trade into an engine for growth in Africa
19 July 2016
Trade and investment can be drivers of inclusive growth for sustainable development in Africa, says the ILO’s Deputy Director-General for Field Operations and Partnerships, Gilbert Houngbo, at UNCTAD 14 in Nairobi but calls for more integrated policies to realize that potential.
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Growth with Equity Report
Social partner’s decisive role in design and implementation of labour provisions in trade agreements
18 July 2016
There is a tendency to establish mechanisms to inform and consult the wider public, including worker and employer organizations, but more still needs to be done to put these mechanisms into practice says Rafael Peels, a Research Officer in the ILO's Research Department.
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Growth with Equity Report
Labour provisions in trade agreements do not harm business and ease labour market access
18 July 2016
Marva Corley, ILO Senior Economist and lead author of the new ILO Growth with Equity report entitled “Assessment of labour provisions in trade and investment arrangements”, says that labour provisions can also help with non-discrimination in the workplace and encourage more women to join the labour force.