Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- 1. The macroeconomic outlook is deteriorating -- The global economy has been weakening rapidly -- Short-term outlook -- Forces acting over the medium term -- Scenarios and policy responses -- 2. Global labour market situation -- Unemployment and labour force participation -- Employment and labour productivity -- Working poverty and vulnerable employment -- A grim outlook for global labour markets -- 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. Policy options for growth with jobs -- A recap of jobs lost to the crisis -- A worsening youth employment crisis -- The global prospects for jobs -- Macro policy options to promote growth with jobs -- Bibliography -- Annexes -- 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. Overview of fiscal austerity measures -- Table 2. Patterns of global growth -- Table 3. Employment and labour productivity growth, world and regions -- Table 4. Labour market situation and outlook and GDP growth inthe Developed Economies and European Union region -- Boxes -- Box 1. Sovereign debt problems in the euro zone -- Box 2. Could financial market reforms increase employment growth? -- Box 3. New ILO estimates of the world's working poor -- Box 4. German wage developments and euro area troubles -- Box 5. The importance of unemployment benefits for an employment recovery.

Box 6. Creating 2.4 million jobs and 7 million job-years in the United Statesthrough private investment -- Box 7. Informal employment in Kazakhstan -- Box 8. Policy options for East Asia to prepare for a greying population -- Box 9. Youth unemployment in Indonesia -- Box 10. Tackling high and pervasive unemployment in Jordan -- Box 11. The impact of the revolutions and political change -- Box 12. LMIA systems and the use of DySAMs to assess employment creation in Mozambique -- Country spotlights -- Country spotlight 1. Growth and employment in Australia, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Spain and the United States -- Country spotlight 2. Growth and employment in the Republic of Moldova,the Russian Federation and Turkey -- Country spotlight 3. Growth and employment in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico -- Country spotlight 4. Growth and employment in China, Hong Kong (China), Republic of Korea and Taiwan (China) -- Country spotlight 5. Growth and employment in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand -- Country spotlight 6. Growth and employment in Egypt and Morocco -- Country spotlight 7. Growth and employment in South Africa -- Figures -- Figure 1. Decomposition of demand conditions: Pre-crisis vs. crisis period -- Figure 2. Financing conditions (USA, euro area and Japan) -- Figure 3. Sectoral employment change and housing price conditions -- Figure 4. Long-term trends in productivity growth -- Figure 5. Changes in investment shares and global productivity growth (2000-10) -- Figure 6. Investment and global unemployment -- Figure 7. World trade growth: Baseline and downward scenario projections -- Figure 8. Global employment trends: Different scenarios -- Figure 9. Global unemployment trends and projections, 2002-16.

Figure 10. Gap between actual and expected labour force in 2011, total unemployment rates and unemployment rates adjusted to accountfor reduced labour force participation, world and regions, 2011 -- Figure 11. Global employment trends and projections, 2002-16 -- Figure 12. Changes in employment-to-population ratios by region and sex, 2002-11 -- Figure 13. Labour productivity (output per worker), constant 2005 international , 1991-2016 and % of productivity level in developed economies, 1991, 2011 and 2016 -- Figure 14. Global working poverty trends, 2000-11 (US1.25 a day) -- Figure 15. Global working poverty trends, 2000-11 (US2 a day) -- Figure 16. Global vulnerable employment trends, 2000-11 -- Figure 17. Labour productivity and selected labour market indicatorsin Non-EU Europe and the CIS economies -- Figure 18. Migration flows from CIS into the Russian Federation -- Figure 19. Origins of labour migrants residing in the Russian Federation in 2010 -- Figure 20. National employment-to-population ratios by sex, 2000-10 -- Figure 21. Female employment-to-population ratio by region and age group, 2000-10 -- Figure 22. Labour force growth, ages 15+ (annual average, %) -- Figure 23. Employment in manufacturing (% change, year-on-year) -- Figure 24. Real GDP (% change, year-on-year) -- Figure 25. Output per worker by sector -- Figure 26. Divergence in labour productivity and employmentgrowth in South Asia, five-year averages (1992-2011) -- Figure 27. Persistence of vulnerable employmentin South Asia, 1991, 2000 and 2011 -- Figure 28. Distribution of employment statusin South Asian countries, latest year -- Figure 29. Unemployment rate (%), selected countries, latest year -- Figure 30. Labour force, 1991-2015 (index, 1991 = 100).