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In order to keep up with working-age population growth, developing countries would need to increase employment by nearly 50 million jobs per year - assuming no change to the labor force participation rate, including that of females.

China and India alone would need to create eight to ten million jobs each year.

In comparison, countries in sub-Saharan Africa would need to generate close to ten million jobs.

SOURCE: WORLD BANK

New:

  • The Evian Group Arab Region is launching its third Annual Meeting, "Arab Responses to Global Challenges & Global Responses to Arab Challenges: Framing a Dynamic 21st Century Agenda", on 7-8 April, 2008, in Amman, Jordan. This event will be preceeded by the Evian Group Arab Region Youth Meeting III, where the young generation will tackle the issues of "Entrepreneurship and Inclusion of Arab Youth in the Global Economy".
  • Resources on the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and ACP countries being currently negotiated and developmental consequences being questioned by experts, governments and public opinion
  • Press release of the Evian Group at IMD XII Plenary Meeting with links to synthetic reports on themes
  • "Mainstreaming Development in the WTO" an indepth research conducted by Faizel Ismail, Head of Delegation to the WTO of South Africa and Evian Group member

 


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