GENEVA—Five years after the global financial crisis hit, unemployment numbers continue to soar, with a record 202 million people worldwide expected to be officially jobless this year, the International Labour Organization said Tuesday. Last year saw a clear resurgence of the crisis, the UN's labor body said in its annual report on global employment trends, pointing out that jobless numbers rose by four million to 197 million in 2012. "This figure means that today there are 28 millions more unemployed people around the world than they were in 2007," before the crisis, ILO chief Guy Ryder told reporters in Geneva Monday. Last year's unemployment number inched up towards the ...
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