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Nepal faces a crisis as COVID-19 stems the flow of remittances

Workers stand inside the Portland labour camp in an industrial area on the outskirts of Sharjah July 20, 2010. The workers in the Sharjah camp say they have not been paid monthly wages of about 800 dirhams ($217) in six months to a year, and their families are going hungry. Abandoned by employers who left the United Arab Emirates after the Dubai economy soured, the men cannot afford to stay, but they also cannot leave. They have not been paid for months and their passports were confiscated long ago. To match Feature EMIRATES-WORKERS/ REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) - GM1E67K1OH201

Some migrant workers were abandoned by employers after coronavirus hit. Image: REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh

Ali Akram
Digital Finance Specialist, Nepal, United Nations Capital Development Fund
Andrew Caruana Galizia
Deputy Head of Europe and Eurasia, World Economic Forum
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