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Skilling Migrant Workers in South Asia: Rhetoric and Reality

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  • Rakkee Thimothy

    (Singapore Management University)

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With the proposition that skills could be a key enabler in improving migration outcomes, this paper seeks to address two issues: to what extent skilling migrant workers figure as a policy concern in labour-sending countries and what strategies are currently underway to enhance the skill of migrants? The paper focuses on three major labour-sending countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. It is argued that not only skilling migrant workers deserve stronger articulation within the administrative structures that manage labour migration, but it is also important to create efficient and effective skill delivery mechanisms, programmes and partnerships that are responsive to the requirements of international migrant workers.

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  • Rakkee Thimothy, 2017. "Skilling Migrant Workers in South Asia: Rhetoric and Reality," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(4), pages 647-662, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijlaec:v:60:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s41027-018-0117-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s41027-018-0117-4
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