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Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia

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Assessing Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia

According to the International Monetary Fund, assessing unemployment in the vast region of Caucasus and Central Asia is difficult because there is no reliable information. These are potential hot spots for social and political unrest. Creating job in this region could help keep the peace Masood Ahmed writes on iMFDirect blog: It is difficult to […]

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Malaysian Labor Unrest Brings Government Warning

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Malaysian Labor Unrest Brings Government Warning

From Free Malaysia Today: Malayasian Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam today, 1 Nov. 2011, warned workers not to picket against amendments to the Employment Act 1955. “If they picket during working hours, it would be illegal and action can be taken against them by their employers for disrupting the working environment,” said Subramaniam. “However, […]

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Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job

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Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job

Farmland in Vietnam  is being gobbled up for development at the rate of 17,000 hectares — more than 65 square miles — per year, putting an annual average 238,000 poorly educated rural farmers out of work in the process. Vietnam’s Communist government reports a “high” rate of rural unemployment of 3.74% during the first 9 […]

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HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia

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HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia

The “challenge” of “human resources” for companies doing business in the Arab states means hiring more of national population. The countries and companies have historically been heavily dependent on “guest workers” or “foreign experts” be they Malaysian maids or German civil engineers. The governments in nations such as Saudi Arabia are anxious to keep their […]

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Nigeria’s Future Depends on Human Capital, Not Oil

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Nigeria’s Future Depends on Human Capital, Not Oil

Awash in oil, rife with corruption, 3.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and simmering ethnic/regional tensions, Nigeria is at least giving a nod toward education and the development of a workforce that will have soemthing to offer in the nation’s post-oil economy other than submitting slavery in return for survival. Political and economic reforms began […]

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Uganada’s Youth Unemployment 83%, Young Lazy Official Says

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Uganada’s Youth Unemployment 83%, Young Lazy Official Says

Kyateka Mondo, said the high unemployment rate should not only be blamed on government but also on the youth. From the Uganda Daily Monitor: Kampala, Uganda – As Uganda continues to grapple with high rates of population growth, the level of unemployment among the youth has also shot high to a remarkable 83%, youth group, […]

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Australian Unemployment Likely to Rise As Hiring Slows

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Australian Unemployment Likely to Rise As Hiring Slows

From the Sydney Morning Herald: Employment growth is tipped to slow from its already sluggish pace in the coming months, as businesses continue to shy away from hiring new staff. The ANZ Bank yesterday (10 Oct. 2011) said the number of job advertisements fell 2.1% in September, the third monthly fall in a row and […]

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Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment

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Abu Dhabi Seeks to Cut Nation’s Unemployment

Heading recent events in nearby Arab nations, another oil state is quickly creating a jobs program for its indigenous population. In this story from Gulf News, Abu Dhabi‘s Department of Economic Development (DED) says it will reduce unemployment rate to less than 5% by 2030 “by providing job opportunities for UAE jobseekers,” according to Rashid Ali Al […]

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10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China

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10 States Losing the Most Jobs to China

From 24/7 Wall St. China is taking American jobs, labor unions, politicians and economists, have accused for some time. The logic is simple. While a manufacturing job in the U.S. may pay $50 an hour, when salary and benefits are factored in, Chinese factory laborers make little more than a few hundred dollars a month. […]

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Study: Asian Family Businesses Outperform Peers

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Study: Asian Family Businesses Outperform Peers

Asian family businesses delivered 261% cumulative total return on investment during the past 10 years and outperformed local benchmarks in seven out of 10 Asian markets, according to a new study conduced by the Credit Suisse Emerging Markets Research Institute The Credit Suisse Emerging Markets Research Institute’s inaugural Asian Family Businesses Report 2011: Key Trends, […]

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