Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Unemployment Crisis Puts Global Recovery At Risk, OECD Says

By Janell Ross – HuffPost Business

Global recovery might be under way, but so long as unemployment remains elevated worldwide, recovery will remain fragile at best, a new report finds.

Since the recession shook economies around the world, most countries have returned to modest levels of growth. Sustaining that recovery, however, will require jobs for some of the more than 50 million who can't find work in the world's most developed economies, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's latest Economic Outlook report.

"This is a delicate moment for the global economy, and the crisis is not over until our economies are creating enough jobs again," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said in a statement.

For full article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/unemployment-recovery-oecd-global_n_866829.html