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Path Naija News » News » As Poverty Hits 630 Million Workers, ILO Warns: Extreme Working Poverty Is Increasing Obstacles To Achieving SDG-1

As Poverty Hits 630 Million Workers, ILO Warns: Extreme Working Poverty Is Increasing Obstacles To Achieving SDG-1

Akanimo Sampson by Akanimo Sampson
January 21, 2020
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Extreme or moderate working poverty is expected to edge up this 2020 through 2021 in developing countries like Nigeria, thus, increasing the obstacles to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1  on eradicating poverty everywhere by 2030.

Currently working poverty, which is defined as earning less than $3.20 per day in purchasing power parity terms, affects more than 630 million workers, or one in five of the global working population.

A new International Labour Organisation (ILO) report tends to be showing that other significant inequalities – defined by gender, age and geographic location – remain stubborn features of current labour markets, limiting both individual opportunities and general economic growth.

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In particular, a staggering 267 million young people aged between 15 and 24 are not in employment, education or training, and many more endure substandard working conditions.

The new ILO report says that around 500 million people lack adequate access to paid work or are working fewer paid hours than they would like.

According to the latest edition of ILO’s global report on employment and social trends, a lack of decent work combined with rising unemployment and persisting inequality is making it increasingly difficult for people to build better lives through their work.

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The World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020 

(WESO) shows that unemployment is projected to increase by around 2.5 million in 2020, jumping from 188 million.

Global unemployment has been roughly stable for the last nine years but slowing global economic growth means that as the global labour force increases, not enough new jobs are being generated to absorb new entrants to the labour market.

ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, said “for millions of ordinary people, it’s increasingly difficult to build better lives through work. Persisting and substantial work-related inequalities and exclusion are preventing them from finding decent work and better futures. That’s an extremely serious finding that has profound and worrying implications for social cohesion.”

The WESO shows that the mismatch between labour supply and demand extends beyond unemployment into broader labour underutilisation.

In addition to the global number of 188 million unemployed, 165 million people don’t have enough paid work and 120 million have either given up actively searching for work or otherwise lack access to the labour market. In total, more than 470 million people worldwide are affected.

It also looks at the labour market inequalities. Using new data and estimates it shows that, at the global level, income inequality is higher than previously thought, especially in developing countries.

Worldwide, the share of national income going to labour (rather than to other factors of production) declined substantially between 2004 and 2017, from 54 per cent to 51 per cent, with this economically significant fall being most pronounced in Europe, Central Asia and the Americas. This is more than suggested by previous estimates, the WESO shows.

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The report, however, cautions that intensifying trade restrictions and protectionism could have a significant impact on employment, both directly and indirectly.

Looking at economic growth, it finds that the current pace and form of growth is hampering efforts to reduce poverty and improve working conditions in low-income countries. The WESO recommends that the type of growth needs to shift to encourage higher-value-added activities, through structural transformation, technological upgrading and diversification.

The report’s lead author, Stefan Kühn, said “labour underutilisation and poor-quality jobs mean our economies and societies are missing out on the potential benefits of a huge pool of human talent. We will only find a sustainable, inclusive path of development if we tackle these kinds of labour market inequalities and gaps in access to decent work.”

The annual WESO Trends report analyses key labour market issues, including unemployment, labour underutilisation, working poverty, income inequality, labour income share and factors that exclude people from decent work.

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