Migration patterns and remittance transfer in Nepal: a case study of Sainik Basti in Western Nepal.

By S. Thieme, Simone Wyss. 2005

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Reconsidering the links between poverty, international labour migration, and agrarian change: critical insights from Nepal (2016, background): “As ‘cultural beliefs and social patterns’ or the culture of migration (Cohen and Sirkeci 2011) have mediated migration, many scholars have reported profound socio-economic and agrarian changes in the countryside (Gartaula, Visser, and Niehof 2010; Kaspar 2005; Sunam 2014: Thieme and Wyss 2005).”
Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “In a case study in Nepal, Thieme and Wyss (2005) similarly concluded that international migration and remittances have a positive effect on the education of children.”
Migration and climate change: examining thresholds of change to guide effective adaptation decision-making (2010, background): “... the value of their remittances to the Nepali economy as a whole may be as great as between 15 and 20 percent of gross domestic product.’’ Such labour migration corridors are likely to provide an ongoing international migration corridor for Nepalis attempting to find greater opportunities than ar”