亚洲人口最多的国家正陷入毕业生就业危机，大量年轻人进入就业市场，但市场却无法提供足够的岗位来吸纳他们。在印度尼西亚，高技能行业的就业创造基本停滞；印度的大学毕业生人数增长远超新增就业岗位；而中国创纪录的大学毕业生人数已将青年失业率推高至18.9%。
Asia’s most populous countries are grappling with a graduate employment crisis, with huge numbers of young people entering job markets that lack roles to absorb them. In Indonesia, job creation has largely stalled in high-skilled sectors; India has seen college graduate numbers far outpace new, available jobs; and China’s record number of university leavers has driven youth unemployment up to 18.9%.
这一问题既带来了短期的政治挑战（例如印度今年夏天爆发的学生抗议活动），也带来了长期的经济挑战。一位前印尼财政部长在国际货币基金组织（IMF）的杂志上写道：“当中间阶层感到不安时，政府在推行会带来明显成本的政策时会变得谨慎。改革恰恰在最需要的时候变得最困难。”——普拉尚特·拉奥 (Prashant Rao)
The issue creates both short-term political challenges — India, for example, has seen student protests over the summer — and long-term economic ones: “When the middle class feels insecure, governments grow cautious about policies that impose visible costs,” a former Indonesian finance minister wrote for an IMF magazine. “Reform becomes hardest precisely when it is most needed.”— Prashant Rao