Dhaka, Nov. 8 -- While remittance inflow recorded a year-on-year growth of 48.9 percent in the beginning of November, the overseas employment fell by 18.46pc in October compared to the previous month and by 25.6pc year-on-year, creating anxiety of continuing remittance inflow.
Sources said, in a bid to keep the remittance inflow speedy, the government eyes the Japanese labour market which needs 11 million foreign workers. Additionally, the government asked Malaysia to ease its conditions for sending Bangladeshi workers there.
The latest data released by Bangladesh Bank (BB) on November 4 showed, the remittance inflow reached US$350 million in the first 3 days of this November.
During the same period last year, remittance receipts stood a...