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Nepal reports jump in numbers leaving for work overseas
The number of Nepali workers leaving for overseas jobs increased by a whopping 27.23 per cent during the period mid-July to mid-August of the fiscal year 2008-09 [starting 15 July] compared to the same month of the previous fiscal year.Published on: 8 September 2008 | The Kathmandu Post
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Sweat and tears: Is the social cost of migrating for work worth it?
Labour migration is a business and like any business it is driven by the laws of supply and demand. Nepal has to compete with other countries for the price of labour and to compete, our workers need to be more skilled, productive and disciplined.Published on: 8-14 August 2008 | Nepali Times
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Economic Class: How To Maximise The Benefits From Our Remittance Economy
Seeing the way Nepali migrant workers are cheated by middlemen, harassed at the airport on departure, ill-treated by staff in Nepal's own national airline and extorted when they return, it is hard to believe that they are the pillars of the country's economy.Published on: 08-14 AUG 2008 | Nepali Times
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No men’s land: rural Nepal survives on remittances, but at what cost?
Those who go to the Gulf send home about Rs 10,000 a month, in Japan it may be as high as Rs 50,000. If a young man decides to stay home, he may earn only Rs 5,000 a month as a bus driver or shopkeeper. The temptation and social pressure to go abroad to work is immense.Published on: 7-13 March 2008 | Nepali Times
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Research shows 70,000 Nepalese children migrate to India every year
Text of report from The Rising Nepal , carried by Nepalese state- owned newspaper Gorkhapatra website on 15 NovemberKathmandu, 14 November: A research at five major checkpoints along the Nepal-India border in western, mid-western and far- western Nepal has shown that ...Published on: 15 November 2005 | The Rising Nepal
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Research shows 70,000 Nepalese children migrate to India every year
A research at five major checkpoints along the Nepal-India border in western, mid-western and far- western Nepal has shown that more than 70,000 children migrate into India every year from those checkpoints alone.Published on: 15 November 2005 | The Rising Nepal
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