23 million Asians lose their jobs because of the crisis.

Due to the global financial crisis in more than 140 million people in Asia in 2009 will be below the poverty line and 23 million - would lose their jobs. With such a forecast was made by the International Labor Organization (International Labour Organisation, ILO), transmits AFP.
According to the ILO, this prediction is that children in Asian countries may not go to school because they will need to work and help their families. In addition, the blow had been internal migrants, who work on short-term contracts, as well as employees of small businesses. Thus, the economic crisis could quickly escalate into a social.
In many countries, from India to China's fixed return migration when workers go back to their villages and towns, where the lack of jobs, say in the ILO.
According to experts organizations, governments of Asian countries need to spend more to protect workers, as well as investments in schools and hospitals. This will help mitigate the effects of the crisis.
Recall that because of the crisis has already been lost, millions of people around the world. In developed countries, referred to in the dismissal of bank employees, and in developing - business in the extractive industries, as well as demand for raw materials has declined dramatically.
February 17, with its forecast of growth of unemployment and the European Commission has released. According to the data, in 2009, work will lose three and a half million Europeans. In Russia, the government expects that the number of officially registered unemployed by the end of the year will exceed two million.