Tag Archives: ILO

When Youth is Wasted on the Young: The Global Crisis of Youth Unemployment

GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC‘s insight: NEETs =  not in education employment or training “According to estimates from the International Labour Organization, around 74.5 million young people (i.e. persons between 15 and 24 years of age) were unemployed in 2013. With around 13.1 per cent, the unemployment rate among young people is almost three times that of […]
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Who are the new middle classes around the world? / ILO

Paul Mason: The International Labour Organisation has identified a rapid growth of ‘the developing middle class’ – a group earning between $4 and $13 a day GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC‘s insight: middle class – “what does middle class mean in the developing world? About 3 billion people earn less than two dollars a day, […]
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