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15 June 2011updated 18 Jan 2012 5:27am

A plan to teach the world

The epidemic of youth unemployment is betraying the promise of globalisation – but it doesn’t need t

By Gordon Brown

Billions of people across the world are in need of and demanding a better globalisation – one that puts the economy to work for people and not the other way round. The financial crash exposed just how detached the global economy has become from our values – a misalignment that is most pronounced in the world’s response to the global epidemic of youth unemployment.

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