http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-25...35.html?page=2
found an interesting article about the 25 most miserable places in the world. parameter yang diambil simpel2 aja sih, cuman berdasarkan inflasi dan unemployment rate. ada beberapa yang stand out di pandanganku.

mengambil posisi pertama - 1. zimbabwe
Misery index score: 103.3
CPI inflation: 8.3%
Unemployment: 95%
i find the unemployment rate is just simply mind boggling. man, that's unreal. is it even possible?

Spoiler for zimbabwe:

Several human rights organizations have called out the government of Zimbabwe of violating basic rights like freedom of assembly and the protection of the law. Violence and intimidation are common in political tactics, and political leaders have mostly failed to agree any any key outstanding governmental issues in the past few years. Zimbabwe's economic growth is slowing, in part because of poor harvests and low diamond revenues. According to the CIA Factbook, "the government of Zimbabwe still faces a number of difficult economic problems, including infrastructure and regulatory deficiencies, ongoing indigenization pressure, policy uncertainty, a large external debt burden, and insufficient formal employment."

The local unemployment rate is estimated to be 95 percent, though the CIA Factbook caveats that the true unemployment is "unknowable" under current economic conditions. Though the inflation rate has stabilized of late, Zimbabwe faced massive hyperinflation between 2003 and 2009.


posisi keempat - 4. belarus
Misery index score: 71
CPI inflation: 70%
Unemployment: 1%
ok. inflasinya memang gila2an. tapi it's not the worst yang pernah kubaca. kayanya dulu zimbabwe inflasinya malah jauh lebih tinggi dari itu. but still, this is very bad. dan kayanya paling parah dibandingkan dengan semua 25 negara yang di daftar ini.

but what impresses me most is the unemployment rate. whoa. 1%. that's impressive. dan 50% of labor force employed by the gov. that's kinda crazy too.

Spoiler for belarus:

In 2011, a financial crisis began in Belarus, triggered by government directed salary hikes unsupported by productivity trends. Despite receiving billions of dollars from the Russian-dominated Eurasian Economic Community Bail-out Fund, the Russian state-owned bank Sberbank, and selling the Beltranzgas to Russian state-owned Gazprom for $2.5 billion, to try and help stabilize the economy, the Belarusian ruble lost 60 percent of its value in 2012 and is still falling.

But at least almost every Belarusian looking for a job has one—with around 50 percent of the labor force employed by the government, the country boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world.


trus yang rada unexpected yang masuk ke dalam daftar juga adalah marshall islands (posisi 15) dan maldives (posisi 22). i mean, bayanganku daerah2 ini adalah surga (buat turis, that is ). simply beautiful. yang pasti maldives termasuk sala satu tempat yang ingin kukunjungi sebelum mati, provided blom tenggelam, tentu saja. katanya ini tempat yang setiap tahun semakin tenggelam. and still, it's kinda surprising to see them made into the list