Building a pipeline across the vast breadth of Kazakstan will provide tens of thousands of jobs in a country battered by severe unemployment.
Battered by inflation, unemployment, chronic fuel shortages and their country's involvement in a pointless war in Congo, Zimbabweans are increasingly turning away from their president's party, which must face an election before August.
In a country like South Africa, hit by massive unemployment and sluggish economic growth, a thriving film industry could hold a tremendous economic opportunity.
The bursting of the housing bubble tipped Spain into a severe recession and by the end of 2011 the country had an unemployment rate of nearly 23% - the highest jobless rate in Europe.
The country's new government has vowed to tackle youth unemployment by promising to create 26, 000 jobs.
They also believe high unemployment in the country and lost off-shored jobs will be solved by lower taxes and less government.
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He has promised to raise living standards by shaping up the economy and cutting unemployment, banish political partisanship in the country and stamp out corruption with tough new regulations and institutions.
While business confidence has improved and Europe's largest economy has returned to growth, output is still set to be down by around 5% this year, and the country's unemployment level and budget deficit are rising.
Anti-bailout parties made massive gains in Greece's May 6 and June 17 elections, with Greeks furious at the drop in living standards by measures that have left the country struggling through a fifth year of recession and sent unemployment spiraling to above 22 percent.
Ms Le Pen has talked about escaping the entire EU budgetary regime by leaving the euro, and blamed many of the country's problems, such as rising unemployment, on unchecked immigration.
The Institute for Employment Research, based in Nuremberg, reckons that migration into Germany will add an extra 1.5 percentage points to the country's growth rate by 2020, with little or no effect on the rate of unemployment.
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