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Working Poverty and Youth Unemployment

Geoff Riley

5th September 2016

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Over 150 million younger workers in emerging and developing countries are suffering from working poverty - in other words they have work but it does not pay enough to lift them out of poverty - little wonder that the incentive to leave a region/country in search of better-paid and perhaps more secure work is strong.

This short video from the International Labour Organisation focuses on the key employment challenges facing younger workers.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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