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Without productive employment, achieving the goals of decent living standards, social and economic integration, personal fulfillment and social development becomes a chimera. Enterprise promotion and human resource development are key elements in achieving these goals. The ILO conducts employment analysis and research, promotes employment-intensive investment and helps formulate employment policy. It also promotes skills development, job creation, enterprise development and cooperatives.

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  • One dinner that changed thousands of lives
    27 October 2009 - Last month, the Salvadoran NGO Agape was awarded the Social Entrepreneurship Award 2009 for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic. ...
  • Somalia: addressing the root causes of piracy and warlordism
    13 October 2009 - Faced with a dramatic increase in piracy off the Horn of Africa, countries have stepped up their efforts to protect shipping in the region. However, attention is now turning more to the question of why people turn to piracy to make a living and what can be done to provide an alternative. ...

Key resources

  • Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM)
    KILM is a comprehensive database of country-level data on 20 key indicators of the labour market, a training tool on development and use of labour market statistics, highlights of current labour market trends and analyses of key issues in the labour market. (Database)
  • An EmploymentAgenda for China – an Update - [pdf 52 KB]
    This document updates the information and analysis in the ILO background paper “Globalization and Decent Work – an Employment Agenda for China” prepared for the China Employment Forum on its original date of April 2003 (and then postponed due to the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic). ... (Briefing note)
  • ASISTDOC bibliographic database
    A bibliographic database containing over 8,000 documents relating to labour-based technologies and local level planning, produced by the ILO as well as its partners. (Database)

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