Creating employment opportunities for the youth: Urgent policy imperatives for Bangladesh
This policy brief addresses the ongoing challenges of job creation and youth employment in Bangladesh, highlighting structural constraints and emerging trends such as automation-induced job displacement and rising informality. It emphasises the barriers young people and women face in the workforce, proposing actionable policies to enhance job creation and access to quality employment opportunities.
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- Employment generation has emerged as one of the most pressing structural challenges facing the Bangladesh economy. The country struggles to convert economic progress into sufficient and meaningful work opportunities.
- This policy brief identifies key structural constraints in the labour market and draws attention to emerging trends that are reshaping the country’s employment landscape and contributing to the persistent and evolving challenges of job creation and youth employment.
- This brief puts forward policy recommendations to foster decent employment for the working-age population, with particular emphasis on the youth. Priorities include formalising the vast informal economy, investing in quality education and market-relevant skills, building a national internship framework to bridge the education-to-employment gap, and expanding labour-intensive sectors such as healthcare, education, and the care economy.