Impact of remittances sent by Bangladesh workers in the Middle East on balance of payments and the income and savings of the remittance-receiving households in Bangladesh. The Wage Earners' Scheme introduces in Bangladesh in 1974. Furthermore, the authors make several alternative estimates of...

The story of South Asia is a topsy-turvy one. Soon after independence from British rule, the region seemed to have a much better prospect than many other parts of the Third World; the prospects soon dimmed, however, as South Asia crawled while East and Southeast Asia galloped away. But a large...