The government has told the unions that it cannot simply favour the employed at the expense of the jobless and poor.

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There, and in other parts of Indonesia, the prospects for the poor and jobless look grim whether they stay or leave.

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As for Central America, crime and kidnapping rings are chasing out foreign investment, the great hope of so many jobless poor.

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Many of the less ghostly beneficiaries would be neither poor nor jobless.

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