Global unemployment and integrated solutions: panel session at the VI Astana Economic Forum
Global unemployment and integrated solutions were in the focus of a panel session that took place in the framework of the VI Astana Economic Forum in Kazakhstan’s capital on May 22-24.
22 May 2013
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Since 2008 the Astana Economic Forum has become an annual event, where most sophisticated intellectuals from all over the world come together to address issues of utmost importance and discuss measures for global economic, financial and social challenges.
The panel session brought together around 100 delegates from countries of Europe and Asia – representatives of the government, international organizations, scientists and experts in employment and labour studies. Among them are Kazakhstan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Serik Abdenov, Tajikistan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Makhmadamin Makhmadaminov, Labour, Employement and Social Protection Minister of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan Airat Shafigullin, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (1996) James Mirrlees, Director of ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Dimitrina Dimitrova, etc.
In his opening remarks to the session Serik Abdenov noted that “the world community discusses employment-related problems as they increasingly reach a global scale.” “Integration processes make us pool efforts in resolving problems of unemployment, jobs creation, investment activity and labour migration.”
ILO Moscow Office’s Director Dimitrina Dimitrova also highlighted that “the unemployment situation in many countries of the world, including industrialized ones, is far from being stable.”
“Consolidated efforts of all countries are needed to develop alternative solutions based on job-rich growth and strengthened global demand that will help countries to find their way out of the crisis and address high unemployment,” she said.
D. Dimitrova also expressed confidence that debates on this important theme within the VI Astana Forum’s framework will help generate fruitful exchange of opinions and enhance international cooperation in this sphere.
Being inspired by the Conclusions adopted by tripartite delegations of member-states from Europe and Asia at the ILO’s 9th European Regional Meeting in Oslo last April and provisions of the ILO Global Jobs Pact, the participants in the Session discussed measures to resist unemployment, recover economy and ensure its balanced and sustainable growth.
In particular, they called for promoting employment-friendly macroeconomic policies and investment in the real economy, creating enabling environment for enterprises, including SME, and strategies to enhance competitiveness and sustainable development while respecting fundamental principles and rights at work. The role of social dialogue as a mean to find consensus in times of economic hardships has been particularly emphasized.
The panel session brought together around 100 delegates from countries of Europe and Asia – representatives of the government, international organizations, scientists and experts in employment and labour studies. Among them are Kazakhstan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Serik Abdenov, Tajikistan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Makhmadamin Makhmadaminov, Labour, Employement and Social Protection Minister of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan Airat Shafigullin, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics (1996) James Mirrlees, Director of ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Dimitrina Dimitrova, etc.
In his opening remarks to the session Serik Abdenov noted that “the world community discusses employment-related problems as they increasingly reach a global scale.” “Integration processes make us pool efforts in resolving problems of unemployment, jobs creation, investment activity and labour migration.”
ILO Moscow Office’s Director Dimitrina Dimitrova also highlighted that “the unemployment situation in many countries of the world, including industrialized ones, is far from being stable.”
“Consolidated efforts of all countries are needed to develop alternative solutions based on job-rich growth and strengthened global demand that will help countries to find their way out of the crisis and address high unemployment,” she said.
D. Dimitrova also expressed confidence that debates on this important theme within the VI Astana Forum’s framework will help generate fruitful exchange of opinions and enhance international cooperation in this sphere.
Being inspired by the Conclusions adopted by tripartite delegations of member-states from Europe and Asia at the ILO’s 9th European Regional Meeting in Oslo last April and provisions of the ILO Global Jobs Pact, the participants in the Session discussed measures to resist unemployment, recover economy and ensure its balanced and sustainable growth.
In particular, they called for promoting employment-friendly macroeconomic policies and investment in the real economy, creating enabling environment for enterprises, including SME, and strategies to enhance competitiveness and sustainable development while respecting fundamental principles and rights at work. The role of social dialogue as a mean to find consensus in times of economic hardships has been particularly emphasized.