TAJIKISTAN LIVES ON INCOME FROM LABOR MIGRANTS, SAYS GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST
By empty (3/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Hojimahmad Umarov, a department head in the Economic Research Institute of the Tajik Economics and Trade Ministry, says that Tajikistan receives $40 million to $70 million per month from labor migrants who have left the country in search of work. Most of the labor migrants from Tajikistan go to Russia. Umarov was quoted as saying that such earnings are the reason there has been no mass hunger in the country and that without labor migration, it would be \"impossible to ensure the material conditions necessary for the survival of the Tajik population.Visit also
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