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  • Unemployment in Armenia

    I have sincerely begun to do some research to learn more about Armenia. Question: Is the unemployment rate still very high? I ask because the CIA.GOV website lists it as being estimated at 30% in 2003. Is this still so? or has it worsened/improved? In comparison, Azeri unemployment is stated to be only 1.2%.

    The other startling thing I noticed is the number of people infected with HIV. The estimated number is TWICE that of Azerbaijan, which has a population that is 2-1/2 times larger than Armenia's. With regard to HIV, is it possible for Azeris who are infected to immigrate to Armenia in search of better equipped hospital or more effective treatment, thusly inflating the numbers? Or are these figures just bunk? Here is where I found the comparative information:




    It is unfortunate that there is no trade between Armenia and both Turkey and Azerbaijan, but it comes as no surprise really. I'm just getting into reading about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

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    Not sure what HIV/AIDS has to do with unemployment. As far as I know Azeris can't openly travel to Armenia and visa versa. Neither do I know about the legitimacy of the numbers, but I don't have any reason to doubt them. Azerbaijan is a muslim country and thus stricter when it comes to intergender relations, so that could account for some of the numbers.

    As far as the unemployment is concerned that is a big problem. Azeris are lucky to have the oil and gas production industry. That also spawns the various oil derivative and machinery industries. Armenia on the other hand had great industry during soviet times but it has no resources outside of some metals. Now the materials and resouces of these industries have been reduced due to the war, the blockade, and the corruption, though it is the least in the region. Thus the industry without resources cannot function. Armenia still continues to be a center of high tech, though less than what it was during soviet times.

    I'm curious what resources you're gonna use during your research of the conflict.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by karoaper
      Not sure what HIV/AIDS has to do with unemployment. As far as I know Azeris can't openly travel to Armenia and visa versa. Neither do I know about the legitimacy of the numbers, but I don't have any reason to doubt them. Azerbaijan is a muslim country and thus stricter when it comes to intergender relations, so that could account for some of the numbers.

      As far as the unemployment is concerned that is a big problem. Azeris are lucky to have the oil and gas production industry. That also spawns the various oil derivative and machinery industries. Armenia on the other hand had great industry during soviet times but it has no resources outside of some metals. Now the materials and resouces of these industries have been reduced due to the war, the blockade, and the corruption, though it is the least in the region. Thus the industry without resources cannot function. Armenia still continues to be a center of high tech, though less than what it was during soviet times.

      I'm curious what resources you're gonna use during your research of the conflict.
      Many thanks for taking an interest and educating me. There is no connection between unemployment and HIV. They're just the first two things that caught my attention that's all. If I have questions about the conflict, I promise to list my sources. It seems that Armenia's biggest export is it's own people- they're leaving to find jobs I guess. What is the policy of Turkey- do they accept Armenian immigrants under extreme circumstances (other family already there etc)? It's a shame I don't know this one, yet here we are.

      In case it interests any of you, I am an amateur web logger, and in the future I hope to take some of what I've learned here and some of what people here have said, and write about it. (in metered doses because I write about most everything under the sun.) Here's the latest: http://americanturk.blogspot.com/

      Here is a recent entry which some of you might like, or hate: http://americanturk.blogspot.com/200...eryone-in.html

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      • #4
        Originally posted by AmerikanTurk
        What is the policy of Turkey- do they accept Armenian immigrants under extreme circumstances (other family already there etc)? It's a shame I don't know this one, yet here we are.
        No, they don't.

        I think Armenians rotate between Armenia and Russia.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by AmerikanTurk
          Here is a recent entry which some of you might like, or hate: http://americanturk.blogspot.com/200...eryone-in.html
          What's there to hate?

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          • #6
            My mum was in Armenia recently, and she was saying that there are alot of jobs available in Yerevan mainly so maybe the stats would have changed???

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            • #7
              Originally posted by AmerikanTurk
              I have sincerely begun to do some research to learn more about Armenia. Question: Is the unemployment rate still very high? I ask because the CIA.GOV website lists it as being estimated at 30% in 2003. Is this still so? or has it worsened/improved? In comparison, Azeri unemployment is stated to be only 1.2%.
              Wrong. It is stated to be "1.2% (official rate) (2004 est.)". Like every "official" fact that originates from Azerbaycan, it isn't worth the paper it is written on. The estimated figures for those below the poverty line are almost exactly the same for both countries - for that category we can be certain it will not be the Azeri government that is doing the estimating!
              Plenipotentiary meow!

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              • #8
                Unemployment in Azerbaijan is at least 30%...

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