A Digital Option In Moldova An RPCV’s readjustment allowance creates better jobs
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BY ADAM LAWRENCE
I saw the nation’s economic troubles as a lack of job opportunities and wondered how I could create good jobs here in Moldova. The local office of the UN Development Progamme estimates that a million Moldovans have emigrated to Europe to find work and send money home. Many others have given up their rural gardens— a staple of Moldovan life—and flocked to the capital city of Chișinău— pronounced Kish-e-now—to look for work, a place where they are
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A web design and development company founded in Chisinau in 2016 is creating new opportunities for some of Moldova’s urban young. The nation is one of Europe’s poorest economies where men in Grigorauca chop wood for a living.
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he Republic of Moldova is a small nation of beautiful landscapes, vineyards, never-ending fields of wheat and sunflowers and broken roads nestled between Romania and the Ukraine. Going to Moldova is a little bit like going back in time. The countryside of day laborers and subsistence farmers move at it their own pace in villages where horse-drawn carts are still common. It is also often called The Poorest Country in Europe. I personally do not like that title because it focuses on the wrong problem. The root of the problem is the lack of job opportunities in the country where I served as a small business advisor in city of Drochia from 2014 to 2016.
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