ILO: Realizing Decent Work in Asia

The International Labour Organization is holding an important meeting in Busan, South Korea this week. Director-General Juan Somavia writes about "underemployment, insecurity, poor working conditions and a shortage of marketable skills" in The Korea Times op-ed article Realizing Decent Work in Asia:

The lack of social protection, especially among workers in agriculture and the urban informal economy is serious.

And despite significant progress in reducing poverty, some 1 billion people are still “working poor” _ working very hard and long hours but unable to lift themselves or their families above the $2 per person per day poverty line.

All this creates underlying tensions that demand our attention.

I have no doubt that Asian countries have the capacity to address and solve these problems. This is a region of initiative and entrepreneurship of opportunity and challenge.

It is a place where resilience, energy and dynamism abound.

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