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Club de Madrid Annual Conference identifies 13 sets of proposals to foster job creation and inclusive growth

Integrate economic policies that include a sound base for domestic businesses and entrepreneurship; lessening of informality; increase in workforce participation of women, the elderly, and the disabled; address skill training and apprenticeships to vulnerable groups;...

Guy Ryder and Christiana Figueres, two visions about Societies that Work

Video message of Guy Ryder, Director General of the ILO: "Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak to your Conference. It is, as my daughter might say, awesome to have the chance to address all of you; eminently this will bring so much political wisdom from...

Vaira Vike Freiberga, new Club de Madrid President

The Riga-born leader will start her mandate the first of January of 2014 after being elected today by the Club de Madrid’s General Assembly. Vaira Vike Freiberga (1 December 1937) has an remarkable political trajectory and a strong commitment to democracy and civil...

Kofi Annan: “Young people have paid the heaviest price in terms of lost jobs and dashed prospects”

Mr. Annan said that the grievances of young people are understandable, because "they have been the least responsible for the economic downturn, yet have paid the heaviest price in terms of lost jobs and dashed prospects". He also remembered that 23.4 millions of young...

SDGs: No one left behind

President Roza Otunbayeva said, during her presentation at the ECOSOC session “From the MDGs to SDGs”, that Central Asian countries had demonstrated that education is the most important factor to unlock development gains. Her country had graduated from socialism with almost 100 per cent literacy,...

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Video summary: Zapatero and the Shared Societies Project in Tunis

The objective of the conference was analyzing the conditions for the success of the processes of decentralization in a country like Tunis which is experiencing a democratic transition. In this framework, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero held a meeting with Habid Essid, Prime Minister of Tunisia, in...

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