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Facilitating Labour Migration from Nepal: Sustainable, or a Structurally Self-Incapacitating Development Trajectory?

Joakim Arnøy

Discipline: Social Science

 

Abstract:

 Nepal has witnessed rapidly growing rates of labour migration since the country’s democratisation in the 1990s. By now, around 1,500 people leave the country every day to take up employment abroad (Adhikari, 2012). The total registered labour migrants for the fiscal year 2011/12 is 384,665 (Department of Foreign Employment [DoFE], n.d.). This is almost as high as the new entrants into the labour force annually. The main reward for Nepal is the high level of remittances, around $5 billion for 2012 (World Bank, 2012).