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More than 600 million new jobs need to be created over the next decade in order to generate sustainable growth and maintain social cohesion, according to the annual report on global employment by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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Moreover, the report, "Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis", says that more than 400 million new jobs will be needed over the next decade to absorb the estimated 40 million growth of the labour force each year.

"After three years of continuous crisis conditions In global labour markets and against the prospect of a further deterioration of economic activity, there is a backlog of global unemployment of 200 million," says the ILO.

The report also said that the world faces the additional challenge of creating decent jobs for the estimated 900 million workers living with their families below the $2 a day poverty line.

"Despite strenuous...

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