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Of its labour force of 1.3m, at least half are abroad, says Valeriu Lazar, the economy minister.

Its labour force of 41 million is expected to decline by 5 million over the next 15 years.

It also hopes to create a high-tech job cluster that will draw part of its labour force and some of its ideas from a polytechnic university that is already next to the airport.The backward-looking part of the plan has to do with the new city's appearance.

The huge loss in population deprived the aristocracy of much of its labour force, which led to the abandonment of farms and the decline of many nobles into the peasant class.

That is not as difficult as it sounds: many refugees from coastal Mississippi headed north to Hattiesburg, the closest unlevelled big city, swelling its labour force while the rest of Mississippi's declined.

This is the third downgrade since November 2001, when Japan lost its AAA rating.Britain's unemployment claimant count fell in March to its lowest level for more than a quarter of a century, only 3.1% of its labour force.

A quarter of its labour force are now foreigners, with jobless rates higher than those of the natives.The Swiss used to be proud of their education system, which appeared to turn out large numbers of skilled and highly employable people.

There are lots of opportunities for women in China, she says but in business life is still easier for men.Women make up 49% of China's population and 46% of its labour force, a higher proportion than in many Western countries.

Last year the province's economy grew faster than those of its more celebrated coastal neighbours (see chart 4 .The interior has demographic depth: Anhui alone has a population of 62m, about three-quarters of Vietnam's (although about a fifth of its labour force already works outside its borders).

But unemployment in the Netherlands remained at 2.4% of its labour force in the three months to October by far the lowest jobless rate of all the countries in the table.The share prices of two of Japan's biggest banks fell to historic lows on concerns about their possible nationalisation.

The iron industry of the Urals, which lost a large part of its labour force when the serfs became free to leave, lagged far behind.