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This study aims to determine how much influence the unemployment rate has on the poverty rate in South This study aims to determine how much influence the unemployment rate has on the poverty rate in South Sumatra from 2010 to 2020. The data used in this study is secondary data. The data was obtained from published data from the Statistics Agency (BPS). This study uses quantitative methods. The analytical technique used in this study is a simple regression analysis using Eviews 11. The results show that the unemployment rate variable has a positive and significant effect on the poverty rate in South Sumatra in 2010-2020 as seen from the t count > t table (2.89 > 1.81) with probability 0.0180 < 0.05.

The purpose of research paper was to find out how international trade openness affects the rate of unemployment and poverty in Kenya for the periods of 1990-2017. Most trade economists believe that an increase in trade openness leads to economic growth of a country. This in turn leads to an increase in employment opportunities and reduction of poverty levels. However this has not been the case in Kenya. Over the last few decades there has been an increase in foreign trade activities in Kenya but yet the rate of unemployment and poverty has remained relatively high. This research therefore tried to examine the extent to which international trade openness and foreign direct investment has contributed to Kenyans’ poverty and unemployment. The results from the analysis showed that international trade openness and FDI do not have any long term effect on unemployment but they have they do have a long term causation on poverty. The study suggests how the government can influence trade openness and FDI in order to have maximum benefit in terms of poverty reduction and creation of job opportunities in Kenya.

Job opportunities are considered as one of important targets in each phase of development process. Job opportunities are highly related to economic growth. The relation is expected to be positive, meaning that the higher the economic growth the more job available. Therefore it is important to ensure the high rate of economic growth. However, economic growth and job opportunities are not always in line, even though the economic growth is high job opportunities grow slower. Consequently, many workforces stay unemployed and increase poverty level. During 2001 – 2011 the economy of Bali grew 5.57 percent per year in average, but job opportunities only grew 3.36 percent. Job opportunity elasticity and ILOR are the methods that can be used to describe the effect of economic growth on job opportunities creation. In the period of 2001 – 2011 the job opportunity elasticity of Bali was less than one. This means that the capability of economic growth to create job opportunities is low. ILOR rate for the period in average was less than 10.000 persons. Thus in Bali poor people are still found, about 2.3 percent per year; income distribution is also imbalanced which is shown by the increasing Gini Ratios. The low creations of job opportunities in Bali are due to: (1) Bali economic growth is mainly supported by consumption expenditures; (2) distribution of the use of GDP is dominated by consumption expenditures (71 percent) while investment reaches only 27 percent; and (3) in each year regional budget always earns a surplus (called SiLPA) which reflects unproductive funds.

La inseguridad se transforma en nudo político de la mayor relevancia. La ciudadanía la reconoce como la mayor fuente de preocupación colectiva, incluso por encima de los siempre acuciantes problemas económicos con su carga de desempleo y miseria. Antes que los desvelos por la mejora en las condiciones de existencia, en un contexto en donde a todas luces la pobreza se agiganta, la gente se siente interpelada por la amenaza sobre su vida y su patrimonio. Mientras tanto el Estado, en la otra orilla, hace del tema un lema de su intervención pública. Los políticos la encuadran en el centro de sus campañas electorales, al tanto que las administraciones inyectan grandes presupuestos en la renovación de sus aparatos de represión y control. La legitimidad pasa ahora por ahí, por la capacidad de la gestión política para contener el crimen y aminorar su presencia., The insecurity is turned into a political knot that has a big relevance. The citizenship recognizes the insecurity as a great source of collective preoccupation, even over the always pressing economic problems, with its load of unemployment and misery. Before the sleeplessness by the improvement in the conditions of existence, in a context in where the poverty is bigger day after day, people feel like interbare by the threat on their life and their patrimony. The state, in the other border, makes with that subject an slogan to justify its public intervention. The politicians fit it in the center of their electoral campaigns, while the administrations inject great budgets in the renovation of their machinery of repression and control. So, the legitimacy has to do with the capacity of the political management to contain the crime and to reduce its presence.