 Impacts on International Migration and Remittances GrowthRabiul Islam, Basri TaliIb, Chamhuri Siwar, Ferdous Alam and Julian Donaubauer Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: This study provided a brief discussion of the international migration, an age old common phenomenon is an emerging economic development issue and remittances growth. Approach: Each year Bangladesh exports huge number of labours abroad for foreign currency, called remittance. In the last four decades remittances played a major role to eradicate the poverty level in Bangladesh and it has experienced positive economic changes in Bangladesh. Now a day’s migration has been a common livelihood strategy of Bangladeshi people. Results: It contributed for the development of both sending and receiving countries as well as contributed at family level and community level. At family level, migration may improve household earnings, food, health, housing and educational standards. At the community level, improvement could be noticed in health, education, sanitation and infrastructure benefiting both migrants and non-migrant households. Conclusion: The aim of this study was to highlight and clarify the impacts on international migration and remittances growth in Bangladesh. Keywords: international migration; economic development; Bangladesh; remittance; labourers; migration; migrants; livelihood; poverty; economic changes; household earnings; health; education; infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11276 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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