{"id":29552,"date":"2025-01-20T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29552"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T03:29:36","slug":"world-employment-and-social-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-employment-and-social-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"World Employment and Social Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About World Employment and Social Outlook:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It provides a detailed analysis of the <strong>state of global labour markets,<\/strong> highlighting key trends and challenges.<\/li>\n<li>It explores issues such as the slowdown in labour market recovery, the persistence of youth unemployment, and the widening global jobs gap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights of the report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2024, global employment grew in line with the labour force, keeping the unemployment rate steady at 5%.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geopolitical tensions,<\/strong> the rising costs of <strong>climate change<\/strong> and unresolved debt issues are the challenges before the recovery and the reasons for putting labour markets under pressure.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>labour force participation<\/strong> rates have <strong>dropped in low-income countries<\/strong> while increasing in high-income nations, mainly among older workers and women, the report pointed out.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The report urged member countries\n<ul>\n<li>To <strong>boost productivity, invest in skills training<\/strong>, education and infrastructure to support economic growth and job creation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expand social protection:<\/strong> provide better access to social security and safe working conditions to reduce inequality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use private funds effectively:<\/strong> low-income countries can harness remittances and diaspora funds to support local development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Who released the World employment and Social Outlook Report?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Labour Organization (ILO) will publish its World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025 (WESO Trends). This report provides a detailed analysis of the state of global labour markets, highlighting key trends and challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/global-labour-market-recovery-slow-india-an-exception-ilo-report\/article69105663.ece#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Employment and Social Outlook provides a detailed analysis of the state of global labour markets, highlighting key trends and challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}