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MYWORLD UN Global Survey
Main outcomes of post-2015 UN consultations:
People need better job opportunities
MyWorld survey: Proportion of people from
each country who selected jobs as one of
their priorities in the post-2015 agenda
Thinking about jobs: how can we make
people’s concerns central in the new agenda?
Recent trends in global economy and
implications for employment and growth
Designing a new comprehensive, universal
and integrated sustainable development
framework
Strategies for employment and growth
Policy mechanisms to promote more
equitable and sustainable employment trends
Scale of the Global Jobs Challenge
Crisis-related jobs gap widened to 62 million jobs
lost since 2008
Mixed trends in reduction of
working poverty
From 55.2 per cent in 2000, the share of $2 a day
working poor declined to 32.1 per cent in 2012, but
remained at nearly 60 per cent in LDCs. Progress
uneven across regions, with more than 87 per cent of
reduction in East Asia.
More than half developing world workforce self-
employed or unpaid family workers – likely to be
informal.
15 per cent of developing world’s total workforce still
living on below $1.25 a day - nearly 400 million
workers - two thirds in South Asia and Sub Saharan
African - mainly in agriculture.
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