Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations
- Written by Anna Barford, Principal Research Associate in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Protests that started as a student movement driven by longstanding dissatisfaction over a quota system to allocate government jobs in Bangladesh have precipitated a change in the country’s political leadership.
These jobs, of which 30% were reserved for independence war veterans and their relatives, are highly sought after. The rate of youth...
