More than 201 million people were unemployed for 2017, it estimates the ILO – Prensa Latina

With the rise expected, the global rate of unemployment will rise from 5.7 to 5.8 percent, and is expect that another 2.7 million individuals enter the ranks of the unemployed in 2018, warned the Un agency.

In the opinion of the director-general of the ILO, Guy Ryder, there is a double challenge: ‘to repair the damage caused by the global economic and social crisis and create quality jobs for the tens of millions of people every year who are entering the labour market’.

The economic growth, he considered, ‘continues to fail and is lower than expected, both in their level and in their degree of inclusion’, with negative impacts on the universe of employment.

In the opinion of the ILO, it is also alarmed at the persistence of a high level of forms of vulnerable employment, associated with an evident lack of progress in the quality.

The most vulnerable segments, among them the family workers without remuneration and those employed on their own account, could be in 2017, more than 42 per cent of total employment; that is to say, a few thousand to 400 million individuals, illustrated the research.

In the emerging countries, almost one of every two workers occupy a vulnerable employment, and in developing nations, more than four out of every five, said Steven Tobin, senior economist of the ILO and a principal author of the report.

therefore, ‘it is estimated that the number of workers in vulnerable employment will increase by 11 million each year, with south Asia and sub-saharan Africa, the regions most affected’, said the analysis.

For the researchers of the ILO, the challenges are ‘particularly severe’ in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the ‘scars of the recent recession will have a major knock-on effect in 2017′.

Similar assessment carried out for sub-saharan Africa, which records their level of economic growth lowest in two decades, while growing the number of individuals of working age.

estimates suggest that by 2017 the vacancy should decrease in the developed nations to lower the rate to 6.2 per cent, against 6.3 per cent in 2016.

however, the pace of progress is slowing and there are signs of structural problems; for example, in Europe and North America, ‘the long-term unemployment remains stubbornly high compared with pre-crisis levels’, the report stated.

‘The global uncertainties and the lack of decent jobs, among other factors, feed into social unrest and migration in many parts of the world’, remarked the evaluation.

The largest increase of this phenomenon took place in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the arab states, considered the source.

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