Bulgarian President Radev Engages in High-Level Talks with IMF's Georgieva
President Rumen Radev engaged in a substantial dialogue with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva
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The International Labour Organization forecast a worldwide unemployment rate of 5.5% this year, a marginal improvement on the 5.6% recorded in 2017, thanks to broad economic growth.
But in its flagship World Employment and Social Outlook trends report, the ILO also raised serious red flags about the health of the planet's labour market.
"Even though global unemployment has stabilised, decent work deficits remain widespread: the global economy is still not creating enough jobs," the organisation's director-general Guy Ryder said in a statement.
A key problem is the abundance of "vulnerable employment", a category that includes informal work arrangements with little or no social and contractual protections. "The significant progress achieved in the past in reducing vulnerable employment has essentially stalled since 2012," the ILO said in a statement.
The problem is most acute in the developing world, where three out of every four workers have a "vulnerable" employment status, the report said. The study's lead author, ILO economist Stephan Kuhn, pointed out that 40% of all employed people in the developing world still live in "extreme poverty".
Uneven economic growth and the huge concentration of global wealth in the hands of very few is expected to be a key topic at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, which opened on Tuesday. The charity group Oxfam reported Monday that 82% of the wealth created in 2017 was controlled by the world's richest 1%.
For ILO chief Guy Ryder, broadening the benefits of economic growth remains the key priority. "Additional efforts need to be put in place to ensure that the gains of growth are shared equitably," he said. /bizcommunity.com
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