When city officials wanted to promote a job-creation plan in 2005, they used ads depicting an office full of Mannekens at computers and in meetings.

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The third response has been to introduce job-creation programmes and to plan social safety nets.

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This speech next week, he will certainly put the need for jobs -- job creation and economic growth within the context of an overall long-term plan for dealing with growing our economy and getting our fiscal house in order.

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And it has just announced a plan for subsidised job-creation.

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Another stalled plan is for the liberalisation of Brazil's stifling labour laws, which discourage job-creation and promote the spread of unprotected informal work.

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