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Tuesday 13 October 2009

Boom in international trade fails workers in developing world - UN report‏

The surge in world trade in recent years has failed to improve the working conditions and living standards for the majority of workers in poor countries, according to a new United Nations labour agency study launched today. In the developing world, job creation has largely taken place in the informal economy, which ranges from 30 per cent of the workforce in Latin America to more than 80 per cent in some sub-Saharan and South Asian countries. Read more: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32505&Cr=international+labour&Cr1=#