Tag: #Unemployment
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UN Warns 186 Million May Be Jobless by End of 2026
(Caliber/The News) — January 15, 2026: The United Nations has warned that global unemployment is expected to remain stubbornly high, with an estimated 186 million people worldwide projected to be without work by the end of 2026, according to a new outlook by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Key Developments The UN projects global unemployment…
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25 IMF Programmes Later: Pakistan isn’t Poor by Accident — It’s Poor by Design
By Fazeel Asif. After 25 IMF programmes, Pakistan is still poor. Still import-dependent. Still can’t export anything meaningful. Still one bad quarter away from default. And everyone acts surprised. Everyone has theories. The IMF is predatory. We’re victims of neocolonialism. The global system is rigged against us. No. This is not economic failure. This is…
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Libya and the Glorious Past
How Libya descended into chaos is incredibly too hard to digest. Till the year 2010… Libya was a booming country. A premium lifestyle that Qaddafi’s government offered to its citizens. One of the top few countries which was rolling in riches… the interminable supply of fuel made life of a common man much easier. Unlike…
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Educated But Unemployed Youth Say They Will Need to Leave the Country
Afghanistan: Youth say they are concerned about the lack of work in the country and called on the Islamic Emirate to provide Jobs. Fardin, 26, graduated from the law and political sciences faculty; he said that unemployment has frustrated him and if this situation continues, he will inevitably leave his homeland and take the path…
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Eternal Woes of Poverty
Pakistan has been undergoing multifarious issues including malnutrition, hunger, unemployment, low life expectancy, and food insecurity. But, the most horrifying of them is poverty. It is said that poverty is the mother of all evils. In Pakistan, it has been emerging like wildfire and making Pakistan’s future face many hurdles in its progress to sustainable…
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Poverty, Unemployment the Biggest Problems facing Pakistan
Poverty and unemployment are the biggest problems in Pakistan. There are three types of social classes in Pakistan. One is the elite who have all kinds of facilities from which they can live a better life. Then there is the middle class, which is a little above the poverty line, and the third category of…
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Unemployment impact on Youth in Pakistan
The unemployment crisis is one of the major challenges facing the youth of our country for since long and it unfortunately continues. If someone from us who’s anticipated to work but is unable to get appropriate job opportunity around his/her existences. The current nastiest status quo of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan; certainly created a…
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New applications for unemployment benefits in the US remain high
Washington, March 18 (AFP/APP): New applications for unemployment benefits in the United States remained high one year into the Covid-19 pandemic, government data said on Thursday, even as the country rolls out vaccines and the economy gets another round of stimulus. The Labor Department reported 770,000 new seasonally adjusted claims for jobless benefits were made in…
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Canada jobs market bounces back, unemployment lowest in a year
Ottawa, March 12 (AFP/APP):Canada added a net 259,000 jobs in February, blowing past forecasts as the unemployment rate fell 1.2 percentage points to 8.2 percent — its lowest rate since March 2020, the national statistical agency said Friday. The rebound, after two months of falling job numbers, coincided with a gradual lifting of pandemic restrictions…
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German unemployment steady in February
Berlin, March 2 (AFP/APP):German unemployment was stable in February, official data showed Tuesday, despite the pain of prolonged shutdowns to slow the spread of Covid-19. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in Europe’s top economy stood at 6.0 percent, the same level as in January, according to the BA federal labour agency. However, the number of…