Ever-increasing unemployment or underemployment of educated youth is taking its toll on Bangladesh as it is giving birth to new social unrest in the country. While its national average unemployment rate is 4.2 per cent, the rate is 2.7 per cent among those who have studied up to primary level...

Youth unemployment has been on the rise since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. Even more troublesome is the dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of a “lost...