"Employment", says Somavia, "is not a by-product of macroeconomic policies, let alone the subject of just another sectoral policy. Employment, i.e. generating productive work, must be a core goal of economic policy."
Faced with the seriousness of the economic crisis and the worsening of social and labour conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Director-General of the ILO proposes, in his report, the need to strive for "a positive solution" that will allow the current deficits of decent work to be overcome and that will serve to encourage enterprise creation, increased productivity, job creation and growth in demand. The region, he says, "needs a productive response and resources. In other words, we need a solution that gives people opportunities to work and to consume".
The report of the Director-General also highlights the importance of social dialogue as "the principle source of governance of socio-economic change in the framework of globalization" and calls for a new model of development in Latin America and the Caribbean "with a view to finding and adopting measures not only to return to high and sustained economic growth, but also to incorporate social objectives into economic policy, democratize and modernize institutions, prevent corruption and violence and - the final goal - to achieve development with freedom, equity, security and human dignity".
Faced with the seriousness of the economic crisis and the worsening of social and labour conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Director-General of the ILO proposes, in his report, the need to strive for "a positive solution" that will allow the current deficits of decent work to be overcome and that will serve to encourage enterprise creation, increased productivity, job creation and growth in demand. The region, he says, "needs a productive response and resources. In other words, we need a solution that gives people opportunities to work and to consume".
The report of the Director-General also highlights the importance of social dialogue as "the principle source of governance of socio-economic change in the framework of globalization" and calls for a new model of development in Latin America and the Caribbean "with a view to finding and adopting measures not only to return to high and sustained economic growth, but also to incorporate social objectives into economic policy, democratize and modernize institutions, prevent corruption and violence and - the final goal - to achieve development with freedom, equity, security and human dignity".