ILO – IMMIGRATION
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLGOVERNMENTS and multilateral organisations need to work together create more jobs in countries with high unemployment, to stem a growing tide of economic migration, says a new International Labour Office (ILO) report. It says that more than half of the 175 million international migrants registered by the year 2000 are unemployed, with numbers projected to increase. "If you look at the global economy from the perspective of people, its biggest structural failure is the inability to create enough jobs where people live", said ILO director-general, ...
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