Recent Trends of International Migration and Remittance Flows: An Empirical Evidence of Bangladesh.

Abstract

International migration is considered to be an important livelihood strategy for the people of Bangladesh. This paper investigates natures and trends of migration and remittance flows of Bangladesh in the last years considering FY 2001-2002 to FY 2012-2013. This is an exploratory type of research based on secondary data generated from various reports of government and non- government organizations and of various publication of home and abroad. It is found that from FY2001-2002 to FY 2007-08 both the migration and remittance flows show an increasing trend but after this period it is showed a decreasing trend. The current research paper has identified various reasons behind this. Study also identifies that about 70 percent of total exports are in different countries of Middle East and most of the remittance also come from Middle East. It is also observed that t due to different reason, the opportunity of manpower export to Middle East region is reducing. Therefore, for increasing the reserve as well as boosting up economic development through remittance flow, government of Bangladesh should come forward to search new scopes of manpower export.