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New figures also signal more people are choosing to return to work

Jeremy Hunt warned inflation needed to be tackled otherwise it would 'prolong the pain'

The UK unemployment rate today rose to 3.7% as official figures also showed no let up in the squeeze on real-terms wages.

Thinktank blames rising prices, inflation and unemployment, and called for national living income

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics labour force data due this week is expected to show continued high competition for workers in the jobs market.

With wage growth far too hot, the Federal Reserve may need to implicitly hike its 2% inflation target to avoid a hard landing for the economy.

Africa is facing some impossibly difficult choices when it comes to financing its development. Countries need hundreds of billions of dollars each year to meet their climate, poverty, unemployment and inequality challenges. They cannot meet these needs only from their own resources, grants and concessional sources. They will have to…

Without addressing high levels of youth unemployment, China will see a generation of lost youth who may look for disruptive ways to voice their despair.

Businesses in the Hunter region are more concerned than the NSW average when it comes to rising interest rates and energy costs, according to the latest Business Conditions Survey.

On the eve of Winter Session an all-party meeting was held on Tuesday in the Parliament premises where several opposition leaders raised issues like unemployment, price rise to be taken up for discussion in the coming session. Read on for details:

Exclusive: This will be part of a move towards a new social welfare system which is moving towards what a source called 'exactly what it says on the tin'-style payments