Bhutan’s rising youth unemployment is no longer a “ticking time bomb”—it is a full-blown crisis. Beneath the surface of growing remittance figures and glowing stories of Bhutanese thriving abroad lies an uncomfortable truth: young people are leaving the country not merely for adventure or education, but because they see no future here in the country.
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