The ILO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific covers one of the most diverse regions of the world – ethnically, culturally, religiously and economically. The population of more than 3.7 billion people includes some of the wealthiest countries on earth as well as two-thirds of the world’s poor.

In recent years the region has faced challenges that have seriously tested its social-economic infrastructure – natural disasters, economic crises and continuing conflicts. In addition, shifts in the international economic environment and the spread of globalization continually generate new challenges.

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