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While the independent expert welcomes the Government’s efforts to tackle unemployment by addressing skills development and reinserting people into the labour market, she reminds the Government that employment activation policies must be implemented from a human rights approach. 54. (...) This is particularly important when individuals are required to enter the job market in times of recession and high unemployment. (...) Activation policies should be designed to increase the participation of women in the labour market, while enabling them (in particular, single 38 NRP, p. 93; and PGNR, p. 16. 39 PGNR, p. 16. 40 CSO, Live Register, January 2011, p. 6.

The Special Rapporteur visited local supermarkets in Harare where she observed that while an ample amount of diversified food was available on the market, high inflation rates and food prices prevented a majority of Zimbabweans from purchasing it. (...) Affordable basic commodities should be available on the market for households with reasonable to low incomes, in order to reduce the burden on social welfare. 59. (...) In addition to not having secure land tenure, major constraints affecting the agricultural sector include limited access to market information, unreliable supply of affordable inputs, lack of agricultural financing, high transportation costs due to inadequate road infrastructure, inadequate irrigation systems and vulnerability to weather-related shocks.

Therefore, the role of a company such as ENABAS, insofar as its interventions on the market could improve the prices paid to the producers and reduce the prices paid by consumers, is in principle welcome. For example, in 2008, ENABAS sold rice at 20 per cent below market prices, beans at 15 per cent below market prices and oil at 12 per cent below market prices through the Food for the People Programme (Alimentos para el Pueblo). (...) He is, nevertheless, concerned that its market interventions may lack effectiveness in the absence of additional liquidity and storage capacity.

The quantitative approach has resulted in positive change, with large segments of the population becoming homeowners with security of tenure that can be passed on to their children. (...) That can be traced back to the introduction of free-market neoliberalism, during the military dictatorship (1973–1990), with a clear link to the provision of housing through market mechanisms, with the State playing a subsidiary role. (...) A/HRC/37/53/Add.1 GE.18-00740 10 benefit social integration.32 New or revised legislation on land, for example, to address transparency in the land market, was under consideration at the time of the preparation of the present report.33 36.

With a larger joint market, the Arab region can strengthen its role in the global economy and have more connectivity to global value chains (GVCs). (...) Unlocking potential for intra-Arab agricultural market integration requires further intra-Arab FDI that currently represents one-third of total FDI in the agriculture sector. (...) The effects on the market structure of the commitments made under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the broad reforms undertaken have been disappointing.

He further encourages the Government to consider establishing mechanisms that would ensure transparent public consultation and the free and informed participation of all segments of society, particularly ethnic minorities and the poorest, in the decision-making relating to and monitoring of public finances. 31. (...) The slow recovery of the world economy may undercut growth prospects through reduced or disrupted global trade and knock-on effects (e.g. trade protection barriers) on Vietnamese exports, an important contributor to the country’s growth.38 GDP growth is likely to slow over the medium term as a result of the financial market turmoil and recessionary conditions in Europe and the United States, the country’s largest export markets. 41. (...) Since 1986, the Government has pursued a policy of Doi Moi (economic renewal), which laid the foundations for a market-driven economy. The country has since experienced rapid economic growth, as well as improved economic opportunities and incentives, permitting household incomes to grow along with increased household consumption and savings. 46.

Characteristics of the housing market in the MENA region ...................................................... 36 11. (...) Jordan, ranked at place 64, lags in labour market efficiency and macroeconomic management. Morocco, income region in the world and displays decreasing trends, as illustrated in figure 5. (...) Jordan, ranked at place 64, lags in labour market efficiency and macroeconomic management. Morocco, 7 ranked number 70, lags in the efficiency of its labour market and education and training sectors.

The possibility of using TV sets for interactive services and the opportunity for integrating editorial content in the press with video programmes open up new prospects for the development of the market. In this wider multimedia context the division of the communications market into limited -3- segments, each with an anti-competitive ceiling on audience share, no longer appears to be compatible with the strong impetus exerted by new technologies, which is encouraging companies to seek cross-fertilisation and synergies. (...) In resolution 136/05/CONS, the Communications Regulatory Authority recently adopted seven measures to foster competition on the digital terrestrial market, mainly based on the obligation to invest in expanding the network, the obligation to provide independent third-party programme content suppliers with 40% of available frequencies in order to give low-cost television market access to new broadcasters, and the obligation on Publitalia to act according to the principles of transparency and non-discrimination on the publicity market. (...) An asymmetric provision is envisaged whereby telecommunications operators whose revenues in the telecommunications services market, as defined by Article 18 of the Electronic Communications Code (Legislative Decree 259/2003), exceed 40% of total revenues for that market may not obtain revenues in the integrated communications system of more than 10% of those of the sector itself.

The benefits arising from labour market improvements have been unequally distributed. (...) The result is a skewed picture where the median income threshold may end up at a deceptively low level, leaving out segments of low-income earners from the poverty count and therefore from official statistics. 14. (...) The proposed recommendation for a European Child Guarantee refers to the need for member States to adopt labour market integration measures for parents or guardians and income support to families and households, so that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing quality services.

The by-laws to the 1999 Total National Budget Law provide for financial and saving facilities for both mass and individual constructors in order to enhance the performance of the national housing market. The by-laws also provide for the setting up of banking facilities for the purchase of housing units by the general public, with special attention to certain groups, such as the families of the martyrs of war. 21. (...) Similarly, access to housing saving accounts requires initial resource deposits normally out of range for the poorer segments of society. Due to the fact that large parts of the population cannot afford down payments, initial deposits and loan instalments, such programmes end up benefiting only the middle and upper-middle sectors of Iranian society. (...) The expropriations are considered a form of land confiscation by the affected population, particularly since prices paid in return for land are considerably lower than market values. E/CN.4/2006/41/Add.2 Page 12 Property confiscation 44.