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In The World Employment Report 2001 the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2001) estimated that globally “at the end of 2000 some 160 million workers are unemployed, most of them first-time job-seekers,” about two-thirds of these in the so-called “developing” world. In addition, the WHO estimated that “about 500 million workers are unable to earn enough to keep their families above the US– 1 -a-day poverty line. These are almost entirely in the developing world. And of the workers who are not among the poor, many lack basic job and income security.” The situation appears to be deteriorating.
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Fryer, D., Fagan, R. (2003). Poverty and Unemployment. In: Carr, S.C., Sloan, T.S. (eds) Poverty and Psychology. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0029-2_5
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