that commitment hasn't really been carried out i think. many people is that while there hasn't been too much action in terms of trying to how ordinary folks like bailing out ordinary people and trying to curb the blow for them there was quite a lot of action to how big corporations and bailing out big companies who later laid out workers thousands would you agree with me that demand for this major change has actually been missed and this misery that shocked many people back in two thousand and eight is now essentially treated like a new normal i think people do recognize that the crisis meant that an enormous effort was going to have to be made to get back on our feet again but they want to sing is they want policy is which work ok we make a sacrifice but we want to see a result the reality is so far people have made the sacrifice but up until now they

don't feel the results of that the second thing is it's a natural human reflex people want policies which are fair if i make an effort somebody should make an effort and those who have more capacity who are richer should make a bigger effort and i think the feeling is that the load is not being shared fairly this is about social justice let me pick up on that are you just mentioned social justice obviously we're having this conversation in a country where i'm working class proletariat used to be a commanding force. the labor movement was part of the state ideology obviously that ideology failed for a number of reasons that are beyond the scope of this conversation but such concepts like social justice so with darity social protections i find them to be a bit tainted by the association of this socialist ideas in certain countries like the united states for example you know such concept as social justice is no.

treated as a bit of a dirty war it may be something and dignified reserved for slackers and moochers rather than active people trying to do something for their society and i understand what you're saying but i have to say my organization has the objective of social justice as its primary obligation so an organization which is nearly one hundred years old we work for social justice and what i find despite the this sort of connotation that you're right can exist i find that people are talking more and more and more about the need for greater social justice i hear in the meeting rooms here in moscow the idea of solidarity countries need to show solidarity to get out of the crisis together so i think you know whatever you know the feelings of the past might be i think these words which belong to the future they don't belong to the past these are notions which are very relevant for the challenges of today but if we are talking about today and present day politics every time president obama

for example mansion's social welfare and he's being accused of being a socialist. let me just mention that american social policy isn't the social safety net that exists there is not exactly generous and wide by the global standard so there is this proud to distort. concepts of social justice and social protection it depends where in the world you're looking at you know the ilo has a policy we want to social protection floor a minimum for everybody and what's interesting is in many of the emerging and developing countries big progress is being made look at china they are rolling out pension schemes they're rolling out medical care for all of their population it's an enormous endeavor in brazil in mexico they're making big progress tell you in the philippines so they're going forward. and at the same time some of the richest countries are turning around and saying well maybe we can't afford this social

protection and longer maybe it's something we have to give up to stay competitive we think that's a mistake now you mention china and i have a question in china later on but before we go there let me ask one more question about the united states and united states is a very peculiar country when it comes to. labor practices and labor policies because for once this country has never had a very strong labor party of the history of trade unions. while you can argue that they have been historically rather weak and also as i think you alluded to in the united states there's still no consensus on the role of government in providing social security and social justice and yet some of the critics of your organization have said in the past that the ilo may be too strongly influenced by the united states and the so-called market fundamentalism that the united states often

represents how would you respond to such purposes no i don't think that's a reasonable view of the way our organization works or indeed how the united states works in the united states is a major player in the international labor organization and upholds really our fundamental values very strongly no the united states has its own challenges it has its own challenges in terms of social security as we've talked about it's got its challenges in respect of employment at the moment and of course keeping people out of poverty but social safety net in the united states is also very limited compared to other countries. to structure a rich country poverty levels are where they are so i absolutely agree with that point of course by international comparison social protection level social security in the states can seem surprisingly thin ok these are policy choices that people make. follows its own principles its own objectives and they apply to the united

states like they apply to russia or the countries of europe or everywhere else but isn't it the case that in many countries around the world including russia especially after the collapse of the soviet union many leaders have become sort of in thrall to your liberal market ideas there was ideas. sensually taken for granted and i think it could be argued that this uncritical embrace of the. you know miracle powers of capitalism is ultimately at the at the core of the current crisis but i think that the crisis broke was the result of excesses and failures of policy i would say the excesses particularly the financial sector we sort of financial sector that got out of control that was not properly regulated and that gave rise to the bubble that exploded in two thousand and eight you're absolutely right and i think when you said it earlier on when the crisis burst when lehman brothers collapsed there was

a thorough rethink world leaders of all political types was saying we need really to change the direction of the global economy and i think that feeling is with us today it's not been acted upon fully but i think we need to see a market economy which is properly regulated where necessary guarantees are provided for working people but necessary safeguards are put in place as well so that we don't simply have a repetition of the excesses that led to the crisis now one of the a longstanding recommendations proposed by york is ation is to create jobs in order to stimulate growth and i guess this is one of those chicken and that questions what makes you believe that jobs will produce growth rather than vice versa. the two go together you're right it can be seen as a chicken and egg situation but we believe in current circumstances and it's the debate that's taking place among labor. everybody agrees that we need jobs and growth so we have to stimulate the world economy we have to get some demond into

the world economy and that means getting wages moved up again getting social security payments properly paid but yes we have to work on the supply side we have to work on training people for the right types of jobs we have to get employment services working better we have to reexamine unemployment schemes to activate workers to try to get humid night into the resources for all those projects and the problem is of course that those resources are limited here's the funny thing it costs more to do nothing than it does to do something i'll give you an example europe the european union is now talking about to use guarantee scheme that's to say and in european union today nearly one in four young people under twenty five is out of a job but the idea in europe is look if you're young and you're out of school and you're out of work for four months you get a guaranteed place either at work or in education does that cost money yes it does

but it costs a lot more to do nothing it costs a lot more in terms of lost production it costs a lot more in unemployment benefit payments but it's also got an enormous human cost an enormous social cost so we do have to find the money upfront as an investment don't treat it as a cost now you just mentioned universal or maybe european if you have guaranteed schemes and if i think if you followed the said here to its logical and you may end up with this system that we used to have here in the soviet union when every college graduate was guaranteed a job although not necessarily the job he or she wanted obviously that system of planned or artificially created employment wasn't sustainable in the long run. when you advocate creation of jobs by governments how do you make sure that those. jobs facilitate rather than hinder natural economic process and what i see i don't see

the government as a universal provider of guaranteed jobs all of the evidence shows that nine out of ten new jobs created come from the private sector the role of the state is to facilitate to help to provide the right enabling environment and countries are going to have to arrive at sensible balances between proper welfare which i think is a hall mark of a decent society but also the obligations of the citizen to contribute these are complex political discussions not ones frankly which we could put a simplistic label on as a solution we'll continue discussing obligations as citizens and governments just after a short break. ok

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welcome back to worlds apart we are discussing the various ways of inducing labor of a guy right there the director general of the international labor organization mr ryder you're going to i know is very concerned with rising unemployment and as far as i understand it's a much greater problem unemployment in general if i'm not mistaken one out of two people young people in countries like greece and spain is out of work you're right unemployment in greece and spain is creeping up for young people up to nearly between fifty and sixty percent but overall in europe for young people is out of

work in general use unemployment is twice as high as general unemployment in the g twenty the twenty countries who are here in moscow at the g. twenty there's only two countries where use unemployment is not twice as at least that's germany and japan so this is a massive social problem it's a social drama but i think having a larger share of younger people used to be treated as a demographic dividend how did it become such a liability. that it's a major social problem well you know i do hear countries which have a young population say this is a demographic dividend why because it means they'll be more people of working age to look after the older people this is the dividend this is a positive. that's if you can find them jobs. and i hear the same people say you know if we don't find them jobs the demographic dividend becomes a demographic time bomb and let me just pick up on that in many of the arab

uprisings it was young economically disadvantaged people who led those uprising zand i think the reception of those uprisings was initially a very enthusiastic around awhile but now more and more countries are increasingly concerned about what is going to happen in those countries in the long run in the europe to be seen the rise of protest movement in this country a russian citizen faction of its labor conditions. very drastic social and political change about a century ago so as a had of the international labor organisation do you think world leaders actually understand that labor and indeed may be a ticking time bomb as you just said i think political leaders understand very very well that mass youth unemployment is a major political problem and i'm asked perhaps a question that people like you also me most frequently is when does youth

unemployment become a source of political instability when is it going to actually lead to change in our society and there is no in numerical terms you know if you'd asked me that question three years ago i would never have imagined that youth unemployment in greece could be approaching sixty percent without a societal breakdown now the situation in greece is desperate let's be very clear but there hasn't been a revolution there hasn't been a political breakdown there's still an elected government hasn't happened and by the way the important thing is we should not wait politicians should not wait until you see an employment becomes a threat to society the real tragedy of youth unemployment is that there are seventy five million young people in the world today who are out of a job and have no future it's a. human waste it's a human drama it's a human tragedy you know i covered the arab uprising six down simply and i think

many western democracy is a very skeptical if not dismissive of other forms of government even if those governments are capable of providing that social stability today people and i want to pose it to you as an academic or scientific question are there any studies that prove the link between democratic elections democratically elected government and. good labor practices or high employment i think history shows us that in the end democracy transparent government which has to be accountable to the people is the most effective economic system that there is there's no doubt about that i think democracy is where governments have to answer to the people enterprises have to be held accountable they're always failings this is what works not so history of the law you just said they could be no doubt and i think. well i think you can.

statement let me give you one example china and your organization just recently complimented china for raising minimum wages to a working inequality you mentioned the pension schemes and the chinese system is generally not considered a democratic system and it is highly exploitive over its people even though china over the last couple of days gets lifted more people out of poverty than any other country moreover if we take on africa for example china is the main contributor to creating jobs in africa and in doing that through some of these schemes that you proposed big infrastructure projects so. trying to understand the point that you make one country in a very big country the biggest in the world nevertheless in addition to china's remarkable economic performance. which is increasingly increasingly converting into social progress through social protection systems through the policies of raising

minimum wages china is advancing socially as well john it is also opening up big time also in its own way of operating its own society its political system is evolving the question is a fair one but nevertheless i don't think the example of china is a contradiction to the general proposition that the best forms are by the way we have to look at people's rights democracy as a values based values based. meaning as well as people's rights are observed not only in democratic societies i know that for many people in the west this is a scandalous idea but i think even during communist times in this country there were times when people's rights were observed maybe not fully but workers' rights were respected and people enjoyed some sort of social stability and social protection my point is not against democracy but my point is i feel that in many countries around the world and our countries would be one example syria libya would be. spain when i was young i went to live in spain two years

three years after franco the fascist regime was overthrown and it was true there was high unemployment in post franco's spain very few people said we want franco but we want fascism back but i think it's a very it's a full because when you argue for example about the war in iraq people always say so you would want saddam hussein back absolutely not he was a dictator but when we talk about the country like libya for example if you wasn't an ideal ruler by during his time people enjoyed high level off employment social protections that libyans these these could only dream of and i think i feel that in the west there is a biased against these social protections that exist people believe that democracy should come at all. cost even if that means sacrificing you know the way of life that you have at the moment social that humans even the. last democratic government

has been able to produce let's trust people with their rights people can make their own decisions when they're given the freedom to and i agree with you political disruption the move over to pay to ship these courses disruption and it causes economic dislocation and i think you mentioned the arab spring i think people welcomed the arab spring certainly our people did but of course it gives rise to economic dislocation the problem is all the people are having second thoughts and may difficult or it's difficult but in the end you have to rely on the right of people to make their own decisions. that principle and i think that i really don't believe it was well i guess my question is about maybe. putting higher stress stress and higher and forces on the social cohesion and the possibility of social evolution rather than revolutions that seem to be here so trendy around it well i don't think you need to present it as one or the other you know i think everybody

attaches importance to social rights to social cohesion but that's not an antithesis of democracy rather the opposite i think but listen when change comes and change comes in a broad way you certainly get some difficult questions to deal with the new sort in russia with the fall of the soviet union of course the ninety's were the toughest years one could imagine life expectancy fell in this country is going back up again this is going on a year is a very high toll on the society i don't doubt that. we already discussed the chinese model and i would like to move to. european way of dealing with this crisis which i think is sometimes exact opposite of the chinese model which is a stereotype and trying to. sort of save your way out of the crisis even though in europe as far as i understand there is still no consensus on whether it works or

not from the labor a point of view or what kind of impact measures have had on the. population so far but i think you're right to point to the controller see around austerity policies because you know as the crisis turned from a financial crisis two thousand and eight two thousand and nine into a sovereign debt crisis in europe around two thousand and ten when the financial markets started to react we got this setting in of austerity policies with people saying the number one priority has to be to bring down government deficit and government debt and that's comes first and frankly the experience of the last three years from two thousand and ten to two thousand and thirteen look at the figures. unemployment has grown in that period. growth has not taken off we see the eurozone still stagnating or in recession so in those terms we have bad outcomes but in addition and i think this is even more telling. we have no

improvement in the deficit or the debt situations and in the end you have to grow to get out of debt you know if i'm unemployed i can't pay my electricity bill if countries aren't working they can't pay their debts so it's a downward spiral in austerity which i think we need to reconsider now those people who cannot pay their bills and spain and greece and some other southern european countries are now margrave being in large numbers to the north so much so that in the united kingdom male migrants now have higher levels of employment than the born men and i guess it's two sided question because on one hand you can argue that migration is beneficial for the british economy for example i think it gives that seven billion pound burst annually but on the other hand it creates a lot of social and ethnic friction i guess this is just one of the dilemmas of

global market and i wonder how would you reconcile those issues you know on british and i lived i saw the effects of quite large scale migration into britain after the enlargement of the european union many polish in the stone in people came and they don't work very well but of course that's in a period of growth when we get recession things get a little bit tougher. by the way i just spoke to the spanish minister about migration from spain very interestingly many spaniards would look now to go to latin america not the traditional places it's going to ecuador chile brazil very interesting patterns. now the point i want to make there are two points migration is a natural and in many ways a very positive phenomenon for the global economy so long. this is taken freely undertaken freely as an alternative if. it becomes a problem the second thing is we need to make sure that migration is undertaken

legally and in conditions which respects the rights of the workers i think one of the big failings of the international community we put rules in place for trade we put rules in place for capital flows for service flows we've not been very good at putting fair rules into place for the movement of people i would just say that i think there is a third dimension to the problem that you just mentioned and i think it's a social dimension because work used to be something that people today communities that put down roots and now we have whole countries where a significant proportion of working age population. the significant time abroad. home remittances they don't see their children grow up they're no longer engaged within that community is they don't vote do you think it's just. a feature of time or something that we will have to get used to and i think migration will always be with us i repeat where migration is undertaken because you have no other

alternative for a decent life and that is why i think the major approach needs to be to create or help to create jobs in the countries where people all take the jobs to the people not just the people to the jobs and unfortunately we do see countries we do see countries where the brightest the most skilled people simply leave because there is no future for them in their own country this is not a. conversation this is all we have time for please join us again same place same time here on the part. wealthy british style.

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