World Bank forecasts there will be a US$100 bil drop in remittances by year-end. FMTNews
Migrant construction workers travel in the back of a crew cab in Bangkok on May 25.
Governments should include returning workers, many of whom had lost jobs overnight, in their social protection measures and reintegrate them into national labour markets, the International Labour Organisation said in a report. There are an estimated 164 million migrant workers worldwide, nearly half of them women, accounting for 4.7% of the global labour force, according to the ILO. Many work in health care, transport, domestic work and agriculture.
Nearly a million migrant workers have returned to South Asia alone, said Michelle Leighton, chief of labour migration at ILO.
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