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Six years into the financial and economic crisis, labour markets are in a state of disarray in many countries, the global jobs deficit is worse than before the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, and the world faces the prospect of weak and uneven economic recovery in 2014 and probably beyond. In these conditions, the challenge of integrating 404 million new entrants into the labour market in the next decade while also absorbing the 202 million unemployed into decent and productive employment opportunities is tremendous. The road towards sustainable recovery and development requires proactive, employment-centred, inclusive growth strategies and coherent policy frameworks, both at global and national levels in industrialised, emerging and developing economies alike.