{"id":11998,"date":"2025-05-28T02:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2025-05-28T02:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:19:21","slug":"claims-of-job-creation-the-reality-of-widespread-youth-unemployment-in-the-shadow-of-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/claims-of-job-creation-the-reality-of-widespread-youth-unemployment-in-the-shadow-of-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims of job creation; the reality of widespread youth unemployment in the shadow of promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11999\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Bekari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While the Taliban\u2019s deputy economic officer announces the creation of 70,000 permanent jobs and the establishment of 1,500 factories after the group\u2019s takeover, reports and field evidence paint a different picture of Afghanistan\u2019s economic situation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said at a ceremony in Kabul that the country has achieved self-sufficiency in 138 industrial sectors and that the industry has made significant progress in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This comes at a time when independent statistics, including a World Bank report, show that unemployment and poverty are increasing in the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the past week alone, six young people in Khost province committed suicide due to livelihood problems and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In many cities, university graduates without the slightest job opportunity spend their days wandering and in despair.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Experts say that without comprehensive planning, economic transparency, and the creation of real production platforms, official statistics cannot respond to the growing unemployment crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Taliban\u2019s deputy economic officer announces the creation of 70,000 permanent jobs and the establishment of 1,500 factories after the group\u2019s takeover, reports and field evidence paint a different picture of Afghanistan\u2019s economic situation. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said at a ceremony in Kabul that the country has achieved self-sufficiency in 138 industrial sectors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11998\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}