Ram Kumar Pant, Mid- West University, Nepal

Abstract

This research entitled “Trend of Foreign employment and remittance inflow in Nepal” concentrates on the employment situation of Nepalese youth in foreign countries and its impact on remittance. The main objective of this study is to assess the impact of foreign employment on the remittance. This study is quantitative fully based on secondary source of information. In this study the available data has been interpreted using descriptive statistics as well co-relation coefficient test. This study has found that the remittance inflow in the country has highly increased in proceeding years subsequently though the migration of youths has tremendously decreased. This study also shows the vast gap between male and female migrant. The number of male migrant is substantially high as compared to female migrant and the number of youth migrants going abroad for foreign employment is studied to be high in Gulf countries. The study reveals that the migration has huge contribution to stabilize nation’s economy as well as to the livelihood of their households with the inflow of remittance.

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