Tag: #remittance economy
Articles tagged with #remittance economy
The new equaliser
Remittance money sent home by migrant workers annually is at least 30 times the aid Nepal receives
How Nepal can avert an economic crunch
Just diversify the tourism and remittance-based economy and explore commercial agriculture
Diaspora Diaries 3
As a truck driver in Saudi Arabia, I am always on the move. That’s how it has been since 2011.Jeddah is almost 1,500km from Jubail, where I…
City Express, Ria, and Khalti tie up
City Express Money Transfer and Ria Money Transfer, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, have partnered to allow Nepali migrants to send…
Nepali workers stuck in no-man's land
More than 43,000 overseas migrant workers have returned to Nepal during the Coronavirus pandemic out of 125,000 who registered to be ‘rescued,’…
Outward bound
Sharecast InitiativeMore than 26% of Nepali households have someone working outside the country. This includes 43.4% of families in Far-Western…
Changing the headlines on migration
Photo: OM ASTHA RAIThe road to the Global Compact on Migration in Marrakesh this week has not been smooth in a politically tense global…
Success in Nepal means not having to work
Nepalis work hardest when they are outside Nepal