Global crisis has cost 30 mn jobs: IMF chief

AGADIR, MOROCCO: The global crisis has cost 30 mn jobs around the world, International Monetary Fund director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn said Monday, opening a human development forum in Morocco.

Employment should be the priority of further globalisation, Strauss-Kahn added.

"The world has lost 30 million jobs because of the global crisis, and the expectations for the years to come are 400 mn," Strauss-Kahn warned the International Forum on Human Development, taking place at Agadir in southern Morocco on Monday and Tuesday.

"In the framework of the new globalisation, the first priority is employment, the second priority is employment and the third priority is employment," he insisted.

More than 1,500 international experts are taking part in the forum, including the president of the Islamic Development Bank, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Ali.