Dagestan is one of the poorest republics in Russia with around 40pc of the population unemployed.

The unemployment rate in 2000 was 5.5% compared to the national average of 5.7% (calculated by dividing the unemployed population by the labor force).

Today, about 60 percent of the overwhelmingly unemployed population does not pay taxes or service fees, leaving the town with little cash for capital improvements.

Despite rising oil prices, the country's economy remains mired in a slump that has left close to 30 pecent of the population unemployed.

And with much of the population unemployed, much of the aid has had to go into emergency relief programs.

Some researchers indicate that unemployed populations in large cities and suburban towns would decrease if put to work by local food movements.

These conservancies are particularly important to the rural generally unemployed population.

It is not only the valleys, with their unemployed industrial population having to commute towards Cardiff to find work, who are being better served.

He did this to provide work for the local unemployed population.

America meanwhile, had been under severe depression in 1938, with vast industrial resources lying idle and 20% of the population unemployed.