Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s unrecognised army of unemployed
Two years after the twice devaluation of the manat and three years after world oil prices plummeted, official statistics in Azerbaijan suggest a rosy picture of the economy. Meanwhile, local companies continue to shut down, each day adding more people to the country’s army of unemployed. [Read in Azerbaijani — Azərbaycan dilində oxuyun] ‘Today everybody, who wants to work, can find a job’, Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan proclaimed on 4 August. According to him, 1.5 million job
