Asian Unemployment figure expected to be 113,000,000

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亞洲失業人口將超過一億

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標籤：失業

根據國際勞工組織的預估，2009年亞洲失業人口最悲觀的估計可能飆升到1億1300萬人，相較去年飆升了2230萬人。
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ILO global employment trends report 2009 - unemployment, working poor, vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global employment crisis

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Type Press release
Date issued 29 January 2009
Reference ROAP/09/04
Unit responsible ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Subjects employment policy, employment security, labour market
Other languages ไทย

28 January 2009 (ROAP/09/04)

BANGKOK (ILO News) – The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET).

Based on new developments in the labour market and depending on the timeliness and effectiveness of recovery efforts, the report has developed three scenarios which illustrate that global unemployment in 2009 could increase over 2007 by a range of 18 million, 30 million workers to more than 50 million if the situation continues to deteriorate. For the Asia Pacific region as a whole, the three scenarios suggest unemployment increases of 8 million, 15 million or 27 million.

The ILO report’s third scenario also suggests that some 200 million workers, mostly in developing economies, could be pushed into extreme poverty (an income of below US$1.25 per person per day). Of these more than 140 million would be in Asia. The same scenario suggests that those in working poverty (below US$2 per person per day) could rise by 176 million, of whom 119 million would be in Asia Pacific

“The ILO message is realistic, not alarmist. We are now facing a global jobs crisis. Many governments are aware and acting, but more decisive and coordinated international action is needed to avert a global social recession. Progress in poverty reduction is unravelling and middle classes worldwide are weakening. The political and security implications are daunting.” said ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia.

“The crisis is underscoring the relevance of the ILO Decent Work Agenda. We find many elements of this Agenda in current measures to promote job creation, deepening and expanding social protection and more use of social dialogue,” Mr. Somavia said. He called on the upcoming meeting of the G-20 on 2 April in London, alongside financial issues, to urgently agree on priority measures to promote productive investments, decent work and social protection objectives, and policy coordination.

 

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Asia’s unemployment to increase by 7.2 million in 2009

Bangkok, February 19, 2009
First Published: 16:33 IST(19/2/2009)
Last Updated: 16:34 IST(19/2/2009)


The number of unemployed in Asia is likely to increase by about 7.2 million from 2008 to this year.

This figure, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), is at a rate of 5.1 per cent, with women and youth hard-hit by rising unemployment.

It said that based on a scenario on economic growth projections, together with labour market impacts from prior economic downturns, the number of workers in vulnerable employment in Asia could rise by nearly 21 million while the number of extreme working poor could climb by over 52 million, this year alone.

The most pessimistic scenario sees the number of unemployed in the region surging by 23.3 million, to a rate of 5.9 per cent, while vulnerable employment could grow by an alarming 60 million, notes ‘The Fallout in Asia: Assessing Labour Market Impacts and National Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis´ report.

The report was prepared by the Bangkok-based ILO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific for deliberation at a forum in Manila involving ministries of labour and finance, senior United Nations, World Bank and government officials, workers and employers’ representatives from more than 10 Asia and the Pacific countries, starting on Wednesday.

A dramatic increase in working poverty of more than 140 million by this year is projected under this scenario, representing a regression of the Asia and the Pacific region to the working poverty rate of 2004.