News
October 2014
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World Investment Forum 2014
Foreign Direct Investment: Getting it right
17 October 2014
Together with UNCTAD, the ILO has organized a dialogue on how best to ensure that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) benefits everyone through the creation of quality jobs.
June 2013
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Presentation
The ILO‘s Approach of Entrepreneurship Development
26 June 2013
Presented by José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Assistant Director-General for Policy, ILO
June 2006
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Article
95th session of the International Labour Conference, 2006
Start your business, tailor your life14 June 2006
According to the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia's report to the Conference, global unemployment increased by 21.9 per cent between 1995 and 2005. Among the main factors contributing to this rise, the report cites, is the deterioration of the employment situation in Eastern European and Central Asian transition countries.
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Article
95th session of the International Labour Conference, 2006
"Papa na come": Liberia rises from the ashes, exchanges guns for jobs07 June 2006
Fourteen years of civil war killed 250,000 of the 5 million Liberians, displaced most of the others, quadrupled the number of people living with HIV/AIDS and left the country with a US$3.5 billion external debt.