Bangladesh, Sept. 20 -- Bangladesh's economic growth is increasingly failing to translate into employment, with a structural shift in job creation raising concerns over the country's ability to generate enough quality work for its expanding labour force, according to a new World Bank study.

The study, Structural Shift in Job Creation: Evidence from Bangladesh, finds only weak evidence of a conventional link between economic growth and employment in Bangladesh.

While the economy recorded average annual real GDP growth of 6.4 per cent between 2010 and 2023, much of the recent employment expansion has shifted towards agriculture rather than the higher-productivity industrial and service sectors.

The report identifies accommodation and fo...