WASHINGTON DC, February 16, 2023 – A host of disruptive trends – public health crises, accelerated automation, digitalization, and climate change – are buffeting the world of work, requiring new kinds of skills and re-skilling in labour markets. Career guidance ...
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Sharp, Long-lasting Slowdown to Hit Developing Countries Hard
WASHINGTON DC, February 9, 2023 – Global growth is slowing sharply in the face of elevated inflation, higher interest rates, reduced investment, and disruptions caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. Read More ...
Read More »Technical meeting on a green, sustainable and inclusive economic recovery for the civil aviation sector
17 – 21 April 2023, Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss opportunities and challenges relating to best practices in occupational safety and health and the promotion of decent work and productive employment to shape the recovery of the aviation industry beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim ...
Read More »Tensions Peak between Urgent Cost of Living Crisis and Sustainable Climate Action
WASHINGTON DC, January 11, 2023 – At present, the global pandemic and war in Europe have brought energy, inflation, food and security crises back to the fore. These create follow-on risks that will dominate the next two years: the risk of recession; ...
Read More »Technical meeting on the future of work in the arts and entertainment sector
13 – 17 February 2023, Geneva, Switzerland The purpose of the meeting is to discuss opportunities and challenges for decent work in the sector in the context of digital technologies, globalization, environmental sustainability, demographic changes and a human-centred COVID-19 recovery, with the aim of adopting conclusions, ...
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