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Hi Zahid and Farria,

It's good to read your post on an important issue of Bangladesh. It is indeed a nice piece to go through within a short period. Yet, I have a few queries to ask.

1. First of all, is it the economic growth of migrant workers' supplying countries matter for the growth of remittances more than the economic growth of those countries which demand for those workers? In my view, the latter will dominate over the former as a factor of remittance inflows.

2. Second, did you analyse the impact of migrant workers of other countries (such as India and Phillippnies) to the same destinations (such as Middle East) has an impact on the flow of migrant workers of Bangladesh? This factor would be important as workers from those countries are more efficient than Bangladeshis in the respected fields.

3. Did you consider the factor, skill of the worker would be one of the main determinants of remittance inflows? How the result will change if more skilled labour could be sent to those countries? And what your suggestions to the government in this regard?

I think these are the basic queries and thanks for a nice post.

- Mortaza