Thailand's estimated 1.8 million migrant workers earned $2 billion in wages last year, but may have contributed $11 billion, or 6.2%, to the gross domestic product, the ILO revealed
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- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:31:51 -0800 (PST)
Saturday December 22, 2007
ILO makes case for migrant workers
Thailand's estimated 1.8 million migrant workers earned $2 billion in
wages last year, but may have contributed $11 billion, or 6.2%, to the
gross domestic product, the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
revealed.
According to the ILO report - "Thailand Economic Contribution of
Migrant Workers" - the Kingdom is getting a better deal from its
migrant workers than it is giving them.
The total number of migrants in Thailand rose from about 700,000 in
1995 to 1.8 million in 2006, according to the report.
Last year about 75% of the migrant labourers came from neighbouring
Burma. This now represent 5% of Thailand's total labour force of 36
million. The remaining migrants mostly come from Laos and Cambodia.
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