Burgeoning bilateral and regional trade agreements meet the need to regulate global production and can benefit non-members, but the WTO’s multilateral system also has a role in reducing the resulting complexity, according to the latest edition of the organization’s flagship publication released (...)
Norway has contributed NOK 1 million (approximately CHF150,000) to the WTO Trade Facilitation Trust Fund — Window 1. Norway is one of the biggest contributors to the WTO development programmes.
ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has called for a new policy paradigm to promote inclusive job-rich growth for the almost 75 million unemployed youth aged 15-24 worldwide.
On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos and a week before the EU Summit on 30 January 2012 in Brussels, the International Labour Organization (ILO) publishes its annual flagship report on global employment: “Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs (...)
The urban unemployment rate in Latin America and the Caribbean continued to fall in 2011, reaching a historic low of 6.8 per cent, announced the International Labour Organization (ILO) today, as it presented the latest version of its annual report, Labour Overview, in which it also warns of the (...)
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to issue its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET) against the background of a lingering jobs crisis and the prospects of a further deterioration of economic activity.
A meeting organized in November 2011 by the ILO, UN DESA, IFAD, FAO and attended by over 15 more agencies, NGOs, academia and media agreed on a set of concrete and practical joint initiatives at national and international levels to develop the potential of rural areas as engines of economic and (...)
The European Commission communication of 13 October 2011, “An Agenda for Change”, presents the guiding principles for future EU external development policy. The Agenda recognizes the significance of promoting decent work covering job creation and the guarantee of rights at work, social protection (...)