Geneva - The UN global labour organisation, in a survey issued yesterday, urged governments to recognise the booming sex industry and tax it.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), in a survey of south-east Asian countries, said prostitution in the region had grown so rapidly that the sex business was now worth between 2 per cent to 14 per cent of Gross Domestic Product in regional economies.
The ILO stopped short of calling for prostitution to be legalised.
