The report analyses productivity, demographic and economic pressures shaping work in the year ahead and outlines the challenges to achieving more inclusive growth. It emphasises that despite resilience of global unemployment rates amid economic uncertainty, the world continues to fall short in achieving meaningful reductions in decent work deficits. Rising AI adoption, trade policy uncertainty, low foreign direct investment and stagnant trade growth render improvements in working conditions through an expansion of employment in trade-related sectors more difficult. It explains that in times of sluggish global growth and falling levels of official development assistance, countries will need to increasingly rely on domestic policies and drivers of economic transformation to promote decent work.

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