Thursday, February 26, 2009

Global slowdown seen hitting BD remittances: The News

DHAKA: The global economic crisis is likely to halve Bangladeshi expatriate remittances and the number leaving to work abroad this year, a top recruiter said on Monday.

“Due to the global slowdown, recruitment (for overseas jobs) and (expatriate) remittances will fall at least by 50 per cent,” Golam Mostafa, president of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BIRA) told a news conference.

State-managed BIRA is the principal agent in the country recruiting Bangladeshi workers for foreign employment.

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