Chart 17  Unemployment Rate and Labor Force Participation Rate 6  %  %  65 64.2  64 5  63 4  62  62.0  Labor force participation rate (right scale)  61  3 60 2  2.2  59 58  1  Unemployment rate (left scale)  57  0  CY1980 1980  56  85  90  Oct. 92 95  2000  Note: Seasonally adjusted figures.
Recent evidence of few key reports including the World Bank’s Global Monitoring Report, 2007 and Access for All, 2007 and the World Economic Forum, Gender Report, 2007 brings out with greater clarity and distinctly the nexus between inclusiveness, growth and poverty reduction.