Tag: Global unemployment

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 16:43 UTC

  IMF urges economic reforms or face brittle growth, high debt and unemployment

  

  The world's policymakers must take economic reforms more seriously, or they could see their economies stuck in a muddle of mediocre growth with high debt and unemployment, the head of the International Monetary Fund said at the multilateral organization assembly.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 - 15:50 UTC

  Global unemployment again on the rise; situation particularly bleak for youth

  

  Global unemployment rose in 2012 after falling for two straight years and could further increase in 2013, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned in a new report. The number of unemployed worldwide rose by 4.2 million in 2012 to over 197 million, a 5.9% unemployment rate, according to Global Employment Trends 2013.