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Risk of social unrest increases as deeper jobs recession looms

Raymond Torres, Director of the ILO International Institute for Labour Studies, discusses the likelihood of a deeper global jobs recession in a grim analysis outlined in the World of Work report, issued by the ILO on the eve of the G20 leaders summit. The report projects that the global economy is on the verge of a new jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in scores of countries.

31 October 2011

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