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Bangladesh is wasting its once-in-a-lifetime window of demographic dividend the economic growth potential that can result from a peak in working-age people due to its inability to create jobs.
Kazi Nafia Rahman,
bdnews24.com
Published: 19 May 2021 01:27 PM BdST
Updated: 19 May 2021 03:01 PM BdST
Namrata Talukdar Orpa completed her postgraduate degree from Dhaka University in 2020, but it’s a long road ahead for her to get the job she wants. She is frustrated by the suspension of the hiring process amid the coronavirus pandemic that upended lives and livelihoods across Bangladesh. );
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“I think we are the ones facing the worst situation. Our results are out already, but there are no employment opportunities,” Namrata said.
She is one of the job seekers in Bangladesh, who worry about their future employment and their increasing age. To add to their woes, job openings seem to be shrinking.