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    Advancing the Interests of Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers: Issues of Financial Inclusion and Social Protection

    Dialogue, Centre for Policy | April 2016
    Abstract
    Migration, and the consequent remittance flows, have wide-ranging implications for Bangladesh, particularly in terms of employment generation, foreign exchange reserves and balance of payments, household expenditure, savings and investment, and in general, for the overall development of the country’s economy. However, issues of financial inclusion and social protection of Bangladesh’s migrant workers have continued to remain relatively unaddressed over the past years. This paper examines cross-country experiences covering three areas: (a) reduction of cost of sending remittances; (b) deployment of financial instruments to harness savings of migrant workers; and (c) social protection schemes to secure and safeguard the interests of migrant workers. The paper undertakes a review of the regulatory mechanisms, measures and schemes in place in Bangladesh in the aforesaid three areas; and by drawing on global best practices and experiences, comes up with a number of recommendations to address the relevant challenges. The paper recommends how modern technology could help reduce transaction costs and innovative financial instruments could be deployed to harness savings of migrant workers. The paper also proposes a number of measures towards better social protection of migrant workers in both host countries and in Bangladesh.
    Citation
    Dialogue, Centre for Policy. 2016. Advancing the Interests of Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers: Issues of Financial Inclusion and Social Protection. © Centre for Policy Dialogue. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6754. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
    ISSN
    2225-8175
    Keywords
    Pension Funds
    Mutual Funds
    Social Equity
    Financial Aspects
    Fiscal Policy
    Social planning
    Social policy
    Social administration
    Social security
    Social services
    Social welfare
    Poverty
    Unemployment
    Public Financial Management
    Financial System
    Financial Statistics
    Pension plans
    Individual retirement accounts
    Employee pension trusts
    Investment management
    Investments
    Multiemployer pension plans
    Keogh plans
    Individual retirement accounts
    Pension plans
    Employee pension trusts
    Pension trusts
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6754
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    Dialogue, Centre for Policy
    Theme
    Social Protection
    Finance
    Labor Migration

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