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Table of Contents - ii 8.5 Mechanical Engineering ...................................................................................... 23 8.6 Shipbuilding and Shipbreaking ............................................................................ 25 8.7 Non-Manual Workers .......................................................................................... 27 9. Regional Developments ............................................................................................. 28 9.1 Latin America and the Caribbean ........................................................................ 28 9.2 Africa ................................................................................................................... 29 9.3 North Africa and Middle East (MENA)................................................................. 31 9.4 Eastern Europe / CIS .......................................................................................... 32 9.5 South-East Europe .............................................................................................. 33 9.6 South Asia ........................................................................................................... 35 9.7 Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific .......................................................... 37 10. Communications ......................................................................................................... 38 11. Administration ............................................................................................................ 40
Secretariat Report for the Central Committee of the IMF 1. Introduction At the time of IMF’s World Congress 2009 in Gothenburg, the world was in the middle of a deep financial and economic crisis. Today we know that the impact on workers was devastating. According to the ILO, unemployment worldwide rose to well over 200 million. Almost ten million jobs were lost in the manufacturing industry. The hardest hit industrial sectors were automotive, metallurgy and electronics. In the engineering sector, NUMSA members gather to the streets of Johannesburg, to make their demands for a living wage and decent work. Photo: IMF / 2011 The recovery has been slow and uneven. Economic growth and foreign investments have continued strongly in emerging economies in the Asia Pacific region, notably in China and India, and in some Latin American countries like Brazil. European Union member states are struggling to find a solution to a crisis in Greece and other countries, while the USA is trying to solve its debt crisis. The economic and political dynamics of the world are again shifting. Unemployment remains high, and too many of the lost permanent jobs in industrialised countries are coming back as precarious temporary and agency jobs. In the developing countries the situation is even worse. Typically 50-90 percent of the workforce is in the informal sector, with no social security, health care or pensions. People are tired and angry. They have taken to the streets to protest against austerity packages in Europe. In North Africa and Middle East, revolutions and uprisings are bound to continue. These reactions highlight the true problems of our world: poverty, unemployment, inequality, social injustice, lack of democracy and lack of hope for a better life. - 1 -
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