Just in case you have a few extra jobs available, there are quite a few Asians looking for work (or will be).
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Asia’s economies face the challenge of finding jobs for an extra 200 million workers between now and 2015, according to a new International Labor Organisation (ILO) report out Monday.
It said the region will have its work cut out to improve the quality of jobs on offer and ensure the benefits of Asia’s future economic growth are distributed more evenly as the labor force, currently 1.8 billion, increases.
“One thing is clear: doing business as usual is not sustainable over the long term,” said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. “Asia is experiencing unprecedented growth and development.
“At the same time, vulnerabilities arising from environmental pressures, economic insecurity, shortcomings in governance, and unequal income distribution pose a threat to the region’s future development.”
“Visions for Asia’s Decent Work Decade: Sustainable Growth and Jobs to 2015,” has been presented to an ILO Asian Employment Forum in Beijing running from Monday to Wednesday.
Government representatives, trade unionists, and employers from some 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific will attend.
The report said the service economy would be the main source of new jobs and by 2015 would have become the biggest single sector employer, representing about 40.7 percent of the region’s jobs.
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