Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Prakash Loungani
Education, migration, and redistribution are key elements of a long-term solution to global unemployment

Getting back to work

Seven Lean Years

Prakash Loungani
The global economy is in slow recovery from peak unemployment thanks to governments’ vigorous policy responses

Women, work, and the economy
Coping with cutbacks

A Matter of Size

Bruce Edwards
Sub-Saharan African businesses must produce more jobs to fulfill the region’s promise

Rwanda's Changing Job Market

A Long Commute

Çağlar Özden
Immigrants do more good than harm when they enter a country’s job market

Toil and Technology

James Bessen
Innovative technology is displacing workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely

Counterpoint on robots and jobs

The Shrinking Middle

Ekkehard Ernst
Labor market trends portend a paradise for some workers, but continued purgatory for mos

Ekkehard Ernst on the middle class
Hans Rosling on inequality

Jobless in Europe

Angana Banerji
A solution to unemployment in the euro area demands both growth and a more flexible labor market

Picture This: Back to Work

Leo Abruzzese
Global unemployment has fallen but job growth remains sluggish

Help Wanted

Hyun-Sung Khang
When a young person is jobless, it also damages family, community, and country.

Power from the People

Florence Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron
The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top

ILO's Guy Ryder

Point of View: The Foremost Priority

Sharan Burrow
It’s time for a recovery led by wages and public investment

Investing in jobs

Youth Echoes

Irma Boracic-Suman, Ahmed Hassan, Takumi Sato, and Alexa Clay
The latest developments in the lives of four young people F&D interviewed in early 2012

Youth joblessness in Africa

Prognosis: Rosy

Giang Ho and Paolo Mauro
When it comes to long-term growth forecasts, economists tend to be overly optimistic

Point of View: System Malfunction

William R. White
The global economy is rife with imbalances that cannot be fixed under the present international monetary (non)system

Bill White on monetary policy

Straight Talk: A Prudent Man’s Curse

Vitor Gaspar
Without the right public institutions, the temptation of power politics can imperil longer-term development goals

Meet Vitor Gaspar

Reducing Informality

Ravi Kanbur and Michael Keen
It may be a great slogan, but it is of little value as a practical objective for tax reform

How to Build a Better Future for Latin America

Adriana Lorena Rojas Castro
Latin America and the Challenges It Faces