Thinking Aloud: Volume I, Issue 8

With the end of another exciting year 2014, SANEM brings in the eighth issue of its monthly delight Thinking Aloud. We welcome 2015 with the theme of international remittance and its effects on the economy of Bangladesh as well as other South https://opencuny.org/valiuym-10mg-for-sale/ Asian countries. The first article of the issue focuses on the effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of households in Bangladesh where the data has been fetched from an in-depth survey conducted by RMMRU on a total of 5084 households across the country. The results from the two-stage econometric regression show that international remittance receiving households have higher predicted probability of per capita expenditure, food and non-food expenditure and education expenditure compared to the non-receiving households. The second article on “What do international remittances mean for the South Asian countries?” provides an optimistic trend of international remittances in South Asia. The article reveals that, during 2000 and 2013, for Bangladesh, international remittances as % of GDP increased from 4.2% to 9.2% whereas the increase in India is from 2.7% to 3.7%. However, for Nepal, data on international remittances highlights a drastic increase from only 2% to 28.8%. In Pakistan, the increase is from 1.5% to 6.3% and for Sri Lanka it increased from 7.1% to 9.6%. Using the CGE models of the South Asian countries, this article shows that international remittances has had important implications for these economies. Along with the regular review section and event anecdotes, an interview with Dr. Tasneem Siddiqui on different migration issues of Bangladesh has been published in the interview section.