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Seed money for migrant workers, entrepreneurs as government targets employment opportunities inside country
Without hassle-free procedures for accessing the initial capital and set criteria as per the vulnerability of migrant workers, the scheme can not yield expected results, experts say.
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Nepal and COVID-19: Never ending peace and lockdown?
This episode focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken by the government to slow its spread, particularly the ongoing nationwide lockdown, on the Nepali economy, the labour market and on the millions of Nepali migrant workers currently stranded abroad or stuck at home. Hanna Geschewski spoke to economist Dr Achyut Wagle and labour migration expert Dr Jeevan Baniya.
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Coronavirus severs Nepal’s economic lifeline
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Nepal is losing its lifeline: international labor migration.
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विदेशमा रहेका श्रमिकको उद्धारबारे विज्ञ भन्छन्–पैसाको लोभ नगरौं
नेपाल र श्रम गन्तब्य मुलकुमा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय उडान कहिले खुल्छन भन्ने पनि स्पष्ट छैन । यस्तोबेला समस्यामा परेका सरकार आफैं उद्धारका लागि आफू बसेको देशसम्म आइपुग्छ भन्ने विश्वास श्रमिकहरुलाई छैन ।
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'We don’t want to die in this desert': Nepali workers in the UAE plead to be brought home
Dozens of Nepalis have already been forced to live on the streets with no shelter and nothing to eat after quitting their jobs.
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के होला ६५ लाख श्रमिकको भविष्य ?
कोरोना प्रभाव सुरु भएसँगै श्रम गन्तव्य देशहरूमा रहेका लाखौं कामदार जोखिममा परेका छन् । ठूलो संख्यामा श्रमशक्ति नेपालमै अड्किएका छन् । यस्तो अवस्थामा रेमिट्यान्समा आधारित नेपालको अर्थतन्त्रमा कस्तो असर पर्ला ? त्यसले पार्ने सामाजिक प्रभाव कस्तो होला ?
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महामारी पछिको संकटः नेपालले गर्नुपर्ने तयारी
कोभिड १९ को महामारी वर्तमान गतिमा नै अरु केहि महिना जारी रहेमा त्यसले निम्त्याउने रोजगारी संकट र त्यसका कारण सिर्जना हुने आर्थिक मन्दी अझ गम्भीर हुनेछ ।
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यो मन त हाम्रो नेपाली हो !
भलै सरकारी तथ्यांकमा नेपालमा थोरै मात्र कोरोना संक्रमित भेटिएका हुन्, रोजगारी र उच्च अध्ययनका खातिर दूरदेशसम्म पुगेका नेपालीमा महामारीको जोखिमका कारण यतिबेला मातृभूमि ठूलो चिन्तामा छ ।
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Nepali labor migrants, Covid-19, and the state
The top five destination countries for Nepalis have already gone to complete coronavirus lockdown, drastically disrupting the lives of their many foreign workers.
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Covid-19 pandemic likely to devastate country’s labour sector as ILO projects 25 million job losses globally
While labour migration has come to a complete halt, more job cuts are expected in the domestic labour market as well, labour experts say.
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Nepal’s remittance-dependent economy braces for upheaval amid Covid-19 pandemic
Money sent by workers abroad has not declined yet, but the future looks uncertain as countries that host Nepali labourers impose travel bans.
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कुवेतको निर्माणस्थलमा हालै भएको नेपाली कामदारको मृत्युले उब्जाएका प्रश्न
कुवेतको एउटा आवास निर्माण कम्पनीमा बालुवा र ढुङ्गाको ढिस्कोले पुरिएर छजना नेपाली कामदारले ज्यान गुमाएपछि त्यसले श्रमिक सुरक्षाको सवालमा गम्भीर प्रश्नहरू खडा गरेको जानकारहरूले बताएका छन्।
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Easy loans in Province 2 for labour migrants could encourage youths to leave country, experts say
Province 2’s decision to provide subsidised loans for outbound workers has drawn mixed reactions from labour migration experts.
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Nepal may lose Malaysian security jobs as Malaysia mulls hiring workers from Pakistan
The Southeast Asian country, one of the most favoured work destinations among Nepalis, is in negotiations to hire nearly 150,000 Pakistani security guards.
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Nepal starts maintaining data on returning migrant workers
The gathering of data on Nepali citizens, who have been to foreign countries and returned home after completing their term, has finally become possible after installation of ‘Nepali Port’—a software at the Immigration Office of the Tribhuvan International Airport.
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Bangladeshis are being trafficked into Nepal, but most cases go unreported
The Embassy of Bangladesh in Kathmandu receives two to three cases of labour trafficking every month.
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Concerns over high cost of hiring Nepalis could hamper labour migration to Malaysia
With employers exploring more source countries, there could be a drop in migration of Nepali workers to the Southeast Asian nation.
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