Working out of the Recession

Business Weekly lines up for the unemployment office - but how much should governments everywhere be spending? And should they be concentrating on saving existing jobs or creating new ones?

In Germany they pay a million people to work shorter hours or to stay at home. They call it Kurzarbeit, literally "short work". But is it worth the money?

And where there is no such safety net - half a world away in Indonesia, where the search for work is desperate and a major issue in the country's election this week.