Employment, globalization and development will be the focus of UNCTAD´s Trade and Development Report 2010.

The Report will review, inter alia, the implications of global economic interdependence and recent trends in the world economy from a trade and development perspective. It will examine the potential impact on developing countries of macroeconomic policies and ongoing adjustments in major economies as well as in financial and primary commodity markets. In particular, the Report will consider the role and design of countercyclical policies to overcome the global economic crisis.

The Trade and Development Report 2010 also:

1. reviews the record of employment creation and unemployment in a large number of developed and developing countries over the past decades;
   
   
2. analyzes the results of, and draws lessons from, different policies aimed at employment creation;
   
   
3. makes recommendations for development strategies that are conducive to employment creation and poverty reduction. Special attention will be given to the need for strengthening domestic demand and reducing excessive reliance on exports for employment generation. The Report will make recommendations for a reorientation of macroeconomic policies and institution building in support of a virtuous circle of fixed investment, productivity growth, wage increases and employment creation.