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Myanmar has 1.1 million fewer jobs after coup, COVID: ILO

Myanmar has 1.1 million fewer people employed than it had before COVID-19 and last year’s military coup, according to UN estimates [File: Damir Sagolj/Reuters]

Myanmar has more than one million fewer jobs than it did before the twin shocks of COVID-19 and last year’s military coup, according to new United Nations estimates.

Some 1.1 million fewer men and women are employed than in 2020, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Monday, after releasing new estimates assessing the impact of the pandemic and the February 2021 coup that toppled the democratically-elected government.

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