Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- LABOUR REPORT Impact of the Global Crisis on Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Outlook for 2010. -- The Global Economic Context -- Economic Growth and Unemployment in the World's Leading Economies -- Crisis and Economic Slowdown in the Region in 2009 -- Economic and Employment Forecasts for 2010 -- The Labour Market in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2009 -- BOX ARTICLES
Challenges for Decent Work in the Crisis: Underemployment and Informal EmploymentDecent Work and Human Development in Central America and the Dominican Republic -- Recent Economic and Labour Market Trends in the Caribbean -- ECONOMIC CRISIS AND EMPLOYMENT: Lessons Learned from the Responses of Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean -- Introduction -- Employment policies to face the crisis -- Policy advances and lessons learned from the Crisis -- EXPLANATORY NOTE -- STATISTICAL ANNEX -- Back cover
Summary
"This edition of Labour Overview 2009 is special because it runs through the complex arena of international crisis and its impact on employment in our region, and also contains some estimates of what might happen this year in the labour market". (Jean Maninat, Regional Director)
