Sudarshan Suvashish Das

Bangladesh’s workers abroad now send home three and a half times what all the world’s donors disburse with no conditions, no consultants, and no debt to repay. It is time to say plainly which model is working. Photo Credit: Shutterstock Deep into a Riyadh night, a Bangladeshi labourer, let us call him Faruk, one of the two and a half million working across the Kingdom, concludes his shift. He returns to his dormitory, taps a mobile application, and transmits 1,500 riyals to Mymensingh.

The workers did their job. Now the state needs to do its part. Our remittances are as big as our garments. So why does one get a ministry and the other get a circular? Photo Credit: Shutterstock Bangladesh crossed thirty billion dollars in remittances last year. First time in history. A 25% surge over the year before. Bangladesh Bank issued a statement. The Finance Minister expressed gratitude to our overseas workers. A few economists wrote columns.

The workers did their job. Now the state needs to do its part. Our remittances are as big as our garments. So why does one get a ministry and the other get a circular? Photo Credit: Shutterstock Bangladesh crossed thirty billion dollars in remittances last year. First time in history. A 25% surge over the year before. Bangladesh Bank issued a statement. The Finance Minister expressed gratitude to our overseas workers. A few economists wrote columns.