According to a recent survey by accounting consultancy grant Thornton International, the country saw a 14 percent increase in 2007.

The group’s international business report said that global employment in the private sector was up 4 percent this year, a slight improvement over 2007’s rate of three percent.

With an economy growing at more than 7 percent annually and 1.3 million new workers joining the labour market each year, many of these staff are being employed by private businesses.