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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9604

19 February 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 33
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) global employment

Close to 5 million more unemployed worldwide in 2008 - Economic turbulence, largely due to credit market turmoil and rising oil prices, could spur an increase in global unemployment by an estimated 5 million people in 2008, the International Labour Office (ILO) said today in its annual Global Employment Trends report (GET). The new projection for 2008 is in contrast to 2007, a watershed year in which sound global GDP growth - of 5.2% - led to a “stabilization” of global labour markets...

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