Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Key findings -- 1 Macroeconomic context for growth and employment -- 2 Global employment situation -- Employment -- Unemployment -- Labour force participation -- Labour productivity and real wages -- Employment by sector -- Vulnerable employment and working poverty -- 3 Regional economic and labour market developments -- Developed Economies and European Union -- Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- East Asia -- South-East Asia and the Pacific -- South Asia -- Middle East -- North Africa -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- 4 Conclusions -- Annex 1 Global and regional tables -- Annex 2 Projections -- Annex 3 Regional figures -- Annex 4 Note on global and regional estimates -- Annex 5 Note on global and regional projections -- Tables -- Table 1 Impact: Country classification with respect to the percentage point change in unemployment rate and percentage change in GDP, for the crisis period -- Table 2 Recovery: Country classification with respect to the percentage point change in unemploymentrate and percentage change in GDP, for the recovery period -- Table 3 Working poverty rates at US 1.25 and US 2 levels, selected countries in South Asia -- Table A1 Annual real GDP growth rates, world and regions (%) -- Table A2 Unemployment rate by sex, world and regions (%) -- Table A3 Unemployment rate for youth and adults, world and regions (%) -- Table A3 Unemployment rate for youth and adults, world and regions (%) (cont.) -- Table A4 Unemployment in the world (millions) -- Table A5 Employment-to-population rate by sex, world and regions (%) -- Table A5 Employment-to-population rate by sex, world and regions (%) (cont.) -- Table A6 Annual employment growth, world and regions (%) -- Table A7 Output per worker, level and annual growth.

Table A8 Labour force participation rate by sex, world and regions (%) -- Table A8 Labour force participation rate by sex, world and regions (%) (cont.) -- Table A9 Labour force participation rate for adults and youth, world and regions (%) -- Table A10 Employment shares by sector and sex, world and regions (%) -- Table A11 Employment by sector and sex, world and regions (millions) -- Table A12 Vulnerable employment shares by sex, world and regions (%) -- Table A13 Vulnerable employment by sex, world and regions (millions) -- Table A14a Working poor indicators, world and regions (US 1.25 a day) -- Table A14b Working poor indicators, world and regions (US 2 a day) -- Table P1 Unemployment 2007-11 (rates) -- Table P2. Unemployment 2007-11 (numbers of people) -- Figures -- Figure 1 Quarterly economic growth rates and number of economies in economic contraction,Q1 2007-Q4 2010 -- Figure 2 Number of countries with rising/falling employment-to-population ratios (change versus same quarter prior year), Q1 2007-Q2 2010 -- Figure 3 Global trends and projections in GDP growth, consumption, investment, trade and unemployment, 2007-11 -- Figure 4 Global employment trends, 2000-10 -- Figure 5 Global unemployment trends, 2000-10 -- Figure 6 Change in labour force participation rate, 2002-07 versus 2007-09, selected regions -- Figure 7 Official youth unemployment rates and adjusted rates accounting for reduced labour force participation, 2009 -- Figure 8 Labour productivity growth and employment growth, world and regions, 2007 and 2009 -- Figure 9 Growth in real GDP, employment, labour productivity and real wages, selected economies,Q1 2008-Q1 2009 and Q1 2009-Q1 2010 -- Figure 10 Employment by sector (share of total), 1999-2009 -- Figure 11 Employment by sector, world and selected regions, average annual percentage change 2002-07 and 2008-09.

Figure 12 Global vulnerable employment trends, 1999-2009 -- Figure 13 Global working poverty trends, 1999-2009 (US 1.25 a day) -- Figure 14 Global working poverty trends, 1999-2009 (US 2 a day) -- Figure 15 Annual change in employment, selected economies, 2007-09 (annual average) and 2009-10 -- Figure 16 Year-on-year changes in youth unemployment rates, selected regions(percentage points) -- Figure 17 Ratio of regional labour productivity level to labour productivity level in the Developed Economies and European Union region, selected regions, 1991-2010 -- Figure 18 Ratio of youth to adult unemployment rates, 2010 -- Figure 19 Share of workers in vulnerable employment by sex, selected countries in South Asia -- Figure R1 World: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R2 Developed Economies and European Union: Unemployment, employment and vulnerableemployment -- Figure R3 Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-EU) and CIS: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R4 Latin America and the Caribbean: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment andworking poor -- Figure R5 East Asia: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R6 South-East Asia and the Pacific: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment andworking poor -- Figure R7 South Asia: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R8 Middle East: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R9 North Africa: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Figure R10 Sub-Saharan Africa: Unemployment, employment, vulnerable employment and working poor -- Boxes -- Box 1 Global food prices and poverty -- Box 2 Looking beyond the aggregates: Unemployment and ethnicity in the United States.

Box 3 Part-time employment in developed economies -- Box 4 Manufacturing employment and wages in East Asia -- Box 5 Vulnerability in Indonesia during the crisis and recovery -- Box 6 Unemployment in Saudi Arabia -- Box 7 The Social Opportunities Project in Ghana -- Country spotlights on growth and employment -- Country spotlight 1 Growth and employment in Germany, Spain and the United States -- Country spotlight 2 Growth and employment in Croatia, Russian Federation and Turkey -- Country spotlight 3 Growth and employment in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico -- Country spotlight 4 Growth and employment in China, Hong Kong (China), Republic of Koreaand Taiwan (China) -- Country spotlight 5 Growth and employment in the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand -- Country spotlight 6 Growth and employment in Egypt and Morocco.