Wednesday 6 May 2009

Our manpower export market is in deep trouble

‘Our manpower export market
is in deep trouble’


President of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) Ghulam Mustafa tells Mushfique Wadud how the labour market is prone to be adversely hit this year because of global recession and that it is high time to reform the Bangladesh missions and embassies


photo by Prito Reza
On February 23, BAIRA expressed the view that the current global recession might cut the outflow of Bangladeshi workers almost by half by the end of 2009. But earlier media reports suggested that global recession won’t have an impact on Middle-Eastern countries and therefore it would not affect our manpower export market. What is your take on this?

From BAIRA, we apprehended such after considering the present situation. In fact Malaysia and Singapore have stopped giving visa to migrant workers.

Read more at http://www.newagebd.com/2009/mar/13/mar13/xtra_inner5.html

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