Jobless to rise by 11m over next 5 years
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UNEMPLOYMENT will rise by 11 million in the next five years due to slower growth and turbulence, the UN warned yesterday.
More than 212 million people will be jobless by 2019 against the current level of 201 million, the International Labour Organization said.
“The global economy is continuing to grow at tepid rates and that has clear consequences,” ILO head Guy Ryder said in Geneva.
“The global jobs gap due to the crisis stands at 61 million jobs worldwide,” he said, referring to the number of jobs lost since the start of the financial crisis in 2008.
The ILO World Employment and Social Outlook — Trends 2015 report said an extra 280 million jobs would have to be created by 2019 to close the gap created by the financial turmoil.
“This means the jobs crisis is far from over and there is no place for complacency,” Ryder said.
The job scenario improved in the United States, Japan and Britain but remains worrisome in several developed economies of Europe, the report said.
“The austerity trajectory ... in Europe in particular has contributed dramatically to increases in unemployment,” Ryder said.
The report said eurozone powerhouse Germany could see unemployment rise to 5 percent in 2017 against 4.7 percent at present, while it was set to fall just under the double-digit in No. 2 eurozone economy France.
The worst-hit segment globally was those aged between 15 and 24, with the youth jobless rate at 13 percent in 2014, almost three times the rate for adults.
The UN agency said the steep fall in oil and gas prices would hit the labor market hard in producing countries in Latin America, Africa and the Arab world.
But one of the rare bits of good news was that the middle class comprised above 34 percent of total employment in developing countries from 20 percent in the 1990s, Ryder said.
But extreme poverty affects one out of 10 workers globally who earn below US$1.50 a day, he said.
A widening chasm between the haves and have nots and an uncertain investment climate have made it hard for countries to rebound from the crisis, the report said.
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