Regulation of labour force and employment in the rural areas of Georgia.

The sustainable development process requires reasonable exploitation of natural as well as economic resources including human resources. Based on relevant data, the present article discusses the problems of human resources and employment in rural areas. The population’s lifestyle and increase rate of immigration negatively affects human resource development, its efficiency and regulation processes. The main reasons for existed difficulties in agrarian sector and ineffective utilisation of human resources are presented in the paper. The study showed that in all regions the women outnumber men, and the rate of retired persons are rather high in human resources; this indicates to the fact that the important segment of the youth which is the main source for staffing labour force is not actively included in this process due to a number of objective or subjective reasons and the rate of selfemployment is high. The author predicts that the rate of working capacity population in the villages will gradually decrease predominantly during the periods when labour market is to be staffed with new resources born during the period of birth rate decrease. In this case, the foreign investment should be attracted and efficiently utilized. The article presents the figures illustrating economically active and non-active, employed and self-employed labour force, and suggests that high number of self-employed could be explained by lack of employment opportunities. The average salary and level of efficiency in Georgian agriculture is rather low determined by poor material-technical base and insufficient qualification of the farmers. The article also deals with women participation in industrial activities, their qualification and age; also, some measures which will ensure women’s active involvement in labour force are specified. Ref. 6.