Massive rise in unemployment needs fast, decisive response, says OECD’s Gurria

Governments need to take quick and decisive action to avoid the financial crisis becoming a fully-blown social crisis with scarring effects on vulnerable workers and low income households, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría told G8 Labour and Employment Ministers in Rome on the 30 March 2009.

OECD: Press Release, 15.5.09: Governments must do more to help most vulnerable amid rising unemployment, urges OECD http://www.oecd.org/document/37/0,3343,en_2649_201185_42459813_1_1_1_1,00.html

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