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22 Jun 2020

Consider This: Youth Unemployment (Part 2) – Long-standing structural problems

Recently the Department of Statistics revealed that Malaysia’s unemployment rate for April – at 5% – was the highest it?s been in 30 years. But what of the youth component? Will young Malaysians disproportionately bear the brunt of the economic fallout from the pandemic?