The seven countries of the AGRUMIG project – China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand – are all severely affected by the rupture in migration patterns. The impacts are a complex of factors related to movement into, within and from countries. Some countries...
‘Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Nepal on Recruitment of Health Care Professionals’. The agreement was signed on 22nd August 2022....
Poor populations in low-income countries are likely to suffer the worst of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 crisis. 75% of the world’s poor reside in rural agrarian areas where livelihoods fluctuate with the seasonal crop cycle. We investigate how seasonality mediates economic...
Widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is crucial for achieving sufficient immunization coverage to end the global pandemic, yet few studies have investigated COVID-19 vaccination attitudes in lower-income countries, where large-scale vaccination is just beginning. We analyze COVI...
A number of policy decisions relating to the private recruitment agencies (PRAs) have been made in Nepal, and there have been some news reports of these decisions benefiting the agencies. However, there is still a dearth of information on the extent of the impact of Covid-19 pandemic ...
Japan and South Korea hold the same goal of preventing unskilled foreigners from settling down while implementing different immigration policies. This paper documents the migration experiences of Nepali workers in the two countries from the early 2000s to the late 2010s to explain the...
The seven countries of the AGRUMIG project – China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand – are all severely affected by the rupture in migration patterns. The impacts are a complex of factors related to movement into, within and from countries. Some countri...
‘Agreement between the Government of the State of Israel and the Government of Nepal on the Temporary Employment of Nepali Workers in Specific Labor Market Sectors in the State of Israel’ signed on 30 September 2020....
he pandemic caused by the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has had enormous repercussions as a global health and safety risk and it has also reshaped the socio-economic and political landscapes. The highly infectious disease has severely affected the supply chain of goods and services, ...
This study seeks to review and analyse Nepal’s legal and policy provisions as they relate to the country’s commitment to and recent progress toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, particularly the decent work agenda. The analysis looks at whether and if existing la...
According to the data from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 760,000 labour permits were issued for UAE-bound Nepali workers in the last two and a half decades. The number of labour permits issued for ‘new entry’ to the UAE surged from a little over 100 in 1993/94 to ov...
According to data obtained from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 40,000 Nepali workers went to South Korea for work in just over a decade between 2006/07 and 2016/17. Although there are some fluctuations, the annual flow of Nepali workers to South Korea has remained above ...
The Gulf countries in general, and Saudi Arabia in particular, have emerged as the prime destination for Nepali migrants. Although there is no record of the first arrival of Nepali migrants in Saudi Arabia, it can be presumed from available data that Nepalis migrated to Saudi Arabia...
According to the data made available by the Department of Foreign Employment, a total of 1,388,106labour permits were issued for Qatar from the years 1993/9419 through 2017/18. More than 100,000 labour permits have been issued for Qatar each year since 2010/11, with the exception...
It is difficult to determine the exact date of Nepali workers’ first migration to Oman. It can be assumed from available data that Nepali workers had started migrating to Oman since the early 1990s. The number of Nepalis in Oman was a little over 17,000 in 2018. The share of Nepal...
A total of USD 6 billion is remitted out of Malaysia every year, and Nepal receives a little less than USD 200 million or 3 per cent of the total remittances sent out of Malaysia. The amounts remitted are, of course, only calculated estimates as there is no accounting of the true vo...
As per the data from the Department of Foreign Employment, over 170,000 labour permits have beenissued for Kuwait in the last two and a half decades (Table 3). The highest number (24,575) were issued in 2011/12, with women making a little more than half of the total migrant worke...
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