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Govt-workers salary negotiation: Trade Unions hum and haw on Rs 2,000 hike in monthly salary
Year of Publication: 4 April 2011 | The Kathmandu Post
Published by: CESLAM
The agitating trade unions have demanded that the government revise the pay hike agreement and increase the workers’ minimum salary by Rs 2,000 a month. Earlier, industrialists and three major trade unions ...
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More unions say no to the pact
Year of Publication: 31 March 2011 | The Himalayan Times
Published by: CESLAM
Four Nepali trade unions have rejected the agreement on minimum wages.
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Helping workers abroad
Year of Publication: 17-23 Dec 2010 | Nepali Times
Published by: CESLAM
Himal Media's roundtable discussion on the challenges and issues of migrant labour. With formal remittances from the 3 million Nepali migrant workers across the globe reaching Rs 262 billion in 2010, it's ...
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Global economic crisis hits remittance inflow
Year of Publication: 16 June 2010 | The Himalayan Times
Published by: CESLAM
Though, the number of Nepali migrant Nepali workers going for blue-collar jobs abraod has not decreased, the remittance inflow has slowed down.
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Caught between Two Worlds: Internal Displacement Induced Dilemma in Nepal
The study discusses the multi-local livelihoods adopted by conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the background of the government’s proposal to rehabilitate them in their places of origin. It is based on ...
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Labour Migration and Remittances in Nepal
The study is based on three case studies in India, Pakistan, and Nepal and in the context of Nepal, presents the findings related to a study conducted in the far-western and mid-western ...
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Heroes of the economy
Year of Publication: 26 December 2009 | The Kathmandu Post
Published by: CESLAM
"Upon reaching the employment destination, the workers may face a series of troubles right from the clash of expectations versus the reality."
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Whither Nepal's remittance economy
Year of Publication: 19 December 2009 | Republica
Published by: CESLAM
Globally, there still remains a severe business cycle contraction through reduced economic activities since recession exceeded almost twenty-four months deviating from the normal understanding that the reduction in a country’s GDP is ...
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Economic Class: How To Maximise The Benefits From Our Remittance Economy
Year of Publication: 08-14 AUG 2008 | Nepali Times
Published by: CESLAM
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 ...
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No men’s land: rural Nepal survives on remittances, but at what cost?
Year of Publication: 7-13 March 2008 | Nepali Times
Published by: CESLAM
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 ...
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Remittance Income in Nepal: Need for Economic Development
The article assesses the role of remittances in the national economy and demonstrates the tremendous impact of the flow of foreign earnings on Nepal’s economic development. With 107 countries now opened up ...
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Causes and Impact of Migration: A Sociological Study of Emigration from Kandebash, Baglung, Nepal
This article looks at voluntary emigration from Kandebash VDC of Baglung district, Nepal, to India and other countries and the causes and long-term impact of such mobility at the local level. The ...
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Nepal-India Open Border: Prospects, Problems and Challenges
This paper discusses the history, socio-economic implications, and challenges associated with the Nepal-India border and the movement of goods and people between the two countries. It recounts the history of mutual exchanges ...
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Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS I 1995/96): Volume II
The Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS) 1995/96 was the first survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) of Nepal as a multi-topic survey collecting a comprehensive set of data on ...
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