The number of migrant workers going abroad from South Asia reached approximately 1.5 million in 2010. Remittance inflow for the same year was logged at a record high of US$72bn. South Asia’s economy has overwhelmingly become a “remittance economy,” whereby countries like Bangladesh, India and Nepal are increasingly dependent on remittances by migrant workers.
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