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Unemployment problem in Bangladesh Introduction :
Unemployment means the state of being without any work both for the educated and uneducated for earning oneĀ¶s livelihood.
Unemployment problem has become a great concern all over the world. But nowhere inthe world
this problem is so acute as in Bangladesh. Thousand of people in our countryare without any job.
Cause of unemployment :
Bangladesh, like other developing countries, suffers from large-scale disguised
unemployment in the sense that, even with unchanged techniques of agriculture a large
part of the population engaged in agriculture could be removed without reducing
agricultural output. Beyond agriculture, disguised unemployment is also existing in large
industries, offices and organizations, particularly in the public sector.
Unemployment among the educated youths is one of the major problems in Bangladesh.
The unemployment rate for the population having secondary school certificate level
education and above is significantly higher than those with a lower level of education.
The unemployment rate for educated women is higher compared to that for the male
population.
In Bangladesh salaried/wage employment in the formal sectors is not big enough to take care of the huge number of unemployed. Employment promotion, especially, creation of
self-employment opportunities, continues as the most important functions of the Bureau
of Manpower Employment and Training. The Fifth Five-Year Plan for 1997-2002 had set
a target of creating additional employment of 6.35 million persons. Of this, a total of
1,60,000 persons are expected to be engaged in self-employment. Emphasis had been
given on training and credit support to women micro entrepreneurs in cottage industries
and other traditional and non-traditional sectors including skill development for service
industries and other non-farm activities. The private sector and NGOs are also playing a
vital role to this end.
Effect of...