3) Why is it so difficult to solve the unemployment problems of the developing world? There are three main reasons. Firstly, there is the constant pressure of a rapidly rising population. This problem is made worse in cities by the drift of people from country areas to escape the poverty of rural life. Then, there are problems of bad manpower planning. For example, a feature of unemployment in the developing world is the educated unemployed the lawyers or arts graduates who have been trained at great expense for jobs which do not exis The point here is that the manpower plan has not been matched to the production plan. However, the major reason for many countries failing to solve the unemployment problem has been their governments' preference for large-scale capital intensive projects which use up scarce resources and have little impact on unemployment. In fact, by destroying local craft-based industry, such projects may even create further unemployment.