Why Bangladesh is not seizing these opportunities of employments ? Imran A. Chowdhury
massive demand for Service, Building and Labour shortages(Financial Times, 26 Nov 18). It is imperative that Bangladeshi private and government sectors proactively gives a deeper look these to identify the potential of this ever growing markets. Service sector alone can perhaps absorb in excess of 2- 3 million employees from places like Bangladesh. Europe is a major tourist attraction into the whole world and which attracts in excess of 1.4 billion tourists per year. It is one of the biggest sources of revenue for the whole of European and Scandinavian states. There are other neighbouring countries who are very proactive to tap into this growing sector and they have been relatively successful as well. Our country is missing out in sundry segments which are not at all explored. Due to some unfounded and
Major tangible asset that Bangladesh has its manpower. In excess of 47 million which is roughly 30% of the total population of 158 million is youth from the age of 18 to 24. These vast bank of youth need to be channeled through towards contributing into the exchequer of the country. As well as getting to make a career for themselves too. The West is suffering from a mammoth shortage of manpower in its service oriented industries. Specially in the Europe, and UK. There is just an acute shortage of many other fields inter alia service sector. The main shortage as per the financial times newspaper(Nov 8, 2018) is Hospitality, Leisure and Service, IT, Construction, Healthcare. Although in the UK the employment to population ratio is all time him yet these important sectors are suffering from a shortage of people to employ. Mainland Europe has