Tag Archives: Joblessness jumped in 2018-19: labour survey

LAHORE: The country’s unemployment rate jumped from 5.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.9pc in 2018-19, the first year of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in power, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday. In absolute terms, the number of people actively looking for jobs increased by 0.92 million to 4.71m in FY19 …

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