Author: Karishma Wasti
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-12-05
Year: 2012
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2012
Examination Committee: Gopal B. Thapa (Chairperson); M. M. Ahmad, Philippe Doneys (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The Central Bureau of Statistics in Nepal (2011) revealed 56% of the total households in Nepal receive remittances 48% of which comes from international labor migration. Despite majority of the economic migrants being internal, and the second highest proportion in India, largest share 26% of the total remittance comes from the Middle East countries. The rising international migration trend in the country is gradually shifting from traditional destination India to the Middle East and South East Asia. On these grounds, the study has made attempts to learn the characteristics of remittances from international destinations their origin, amounts and use. The study is based on data collected from 120 households in a mountainous district, Dolakha, from eastern north border of Nepal. Questionnaire survey and case studies conducted with these remittance receiving households, located in the Boch and Lakuridanda VDCs of Dolakha have lead to some meaningful inferences regarding the migration trend, amounts and use of remittances and the factors influencing them. The inferences drawn from the study indicate that the current migration trend in the country, which is unskilled work in the high income Asian economies, has put the migrant workers and their incomes under vulnerable situation. The woes of the migrants are aggravated by the control the recruiting companies have over the migration process and the fees they charge which increases the cost of migration by manifolds. This in turn has heavily affected the amounts of remittances received and used. The Pearson’s correlation results indicate remittances received is heavily dependent on the salaries of the migrants and the destination of work. The salary is further an outcome of the occupation of migrant, trainings and the destination again. Unfortunately, the most favored destinations li
Scholarship Donor(s): Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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