Labour market: A ticking time bomb. Bangladesh has an oversupply of tertiary graduates and the unemployment rate among the educated youth has grown 2.5 times since 2010 as they are ‘incompatible ...

As Bangladesh struggles with high youth unemployment rates, enhancing the TVET and skill development system holds the key. Is the budget just another attempt at ‘youthwashing’?

Demonstrators shout slogans after they have occupied a street during a protest demanding the stepping down of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, following quota reform protests by students ...

According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the number of unemployed people reached 2.66 million by the end of September 2024, marking a 6 percent increase compared to 2.49 million the ...

Some 2.6 million of Bangladesh's potential 62.1 million work force were unemployed in 2015-16, according to a joint report by the state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the World Bank. The ...

The writer says Bangladesh needs to address youth unemployment to achieve its economic growth and development goals. A youth cleans rusts from a car wheels at a workshop in Dhaka on June 8, 2021 ...

The government of Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina fell on Monday, as demonstrations shifted to a demand for her to go. The protests were initially centred around a half-century-old empowerment scheme that ...

The latest survey found Bangladesh has a 73.4 million-strong eligible labour force, including 25.9 million women. The BBS said the unemployment rate rose to 3.56 percent from 3.1 percent among men ...