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15 Feb 22
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is set to accelerate reforms to modernise electrical supply and broadband, in a bid to reverse record high unemployment.
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26 Aug 21
A group of experts in Finland has begun discussing the introduction of a ‘negative income tax’ to help support people’s incomes and encourage them to work.
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2 Sep 20
Cambodia has received approval on a $250m loan from the Asian Development Bank, to help with the country’s response to Covid-19.
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7 Apr 20
Millions of job losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic are putting governments around the world under huge financial pressure to meet unemployment payments.
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31 Jan 20
“Urgent” action is needed to develop people’s skills in Africa, where low human capital risks future economic growth, the African Development Bank has said.
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19 Mar 19
The African Development Bank’s Uyoyo Edosio explains how an ICT programme is helping young people in Kenya become more employable.
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6 Mar 19
The Swedish national employment agency will close more than half of its local job centres across the country after funding was slashed.
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31 Jan 17
The eurozone economy grew by 0.5% in the final quarter of 2016, according to official figures, suggesting that Europe’s tentative recovery is continuing.
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18 Aug 16
The rate of unemployment in France has fallen below 10% for the first time since 2012.
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29 Jul 16
Growth across the eurozone has slowed in the second quarter of 2016, according to figures released today.
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21 Jun 16
Croatian lawmakers have voted to dissolve parliament, a move that will trigger snap elections and is likely to hamper progress in fixing the country’s public finances.
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15 Apr 16
Tunisia has made further progress towards a $2.8bn support package from the International Monetary Fund, which now only needs approval from the fund’s executive board.
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2 Mar 16
Intensive efforts are needed to spur economic growth and opportunity in Kosovo as political turmoil hampers progress, chief of the United Nations mission in the country has warned.
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20 Jan 16
Global unemployment looks set to rise to 200 million people by 2017, the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation has concluded.
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16 Dec 15
Increased capital spending in Indonesia could spur higher growth in the country in 2016, the World Bank has said.
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30 Nov 15
The United Nation’s International Labour Organisation has called for collective bargaining, consensus and social dialogue in rebuilding the Greek labour market.
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19 Nov 15
Better-educated people in lower-income countries can struggle to find suitable work, according to the International Labour Organisation.
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19 May 15
Global unemployment fell by 0.1 percentage points to 7% in February this year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s latest snapshot.