ILO lists Pakistan as world’s third largest contributor of online labour

A report has revealed that Pakistan is the world’s third-largest supplier of technical manpower for online services.

A report that was published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) covers a client pool based in developed countries, with the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Australia, and Canada as the top demanding countries.

The report also reveals that the participation of women on online web-based platforms for work during 2020 was the lowest in India (21 percent), and moderately high in Ukraine (39 percent) and the USA (41 percent).

In contrast to the demand for work on these platforms, the supply of labor originated mainly from a number of developing countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Ukraine in particular, apart from the UK and the USA.

Moreover, air pollution has caused almost 54,000 premature deaths in the Indian capital New Delhi last year, a higher toll than in any other metropolis, according to a study.

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The study by Greenpeace Southeast Asia Analysis and Swiss firm IQAir measured air quality by recording the concentration of poisonous PM2.5 particles, which are less than 2.5 microns in diameter and can cause deadly diseases.

The damage is “equally worrying” in other Indian cities, said the report. “An estimated 25,000 avoidable deaths in Mumbai in 2020 have been attributed to air pollution. Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad estimated an approximate 12,000, 11,000, and 11,000 avoidable deaths respectively due to polluted air,” it added.