In Search of A Key Role
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Pathways / Sep.2003
(cont.) HR Efficiency
lIndustrial productivity in the nineties was the same as in the sixties (UNEDO).
lAnnual Income/individual in 1997(1653 $),i.e. annual growth of only 0.7% (1990-1998).
lAverage unemployment rate is 10%.
lBy 2010 Five Million work opportunities need to be created to absorb the new entrants.
lUnemployment could reach 25% (if existing rates stay as is)
lWomen political representation is the lowest in the world (3.5% in the Parliament) against (4.2% in East Asia - except China, 12.7% in South East Asia and the Pacific, and 12.9% in Latin America).
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