The role of remittance on education attainment in Ramechhap municipality: A case study on Nepalese economic in education achievement

Abstract

Remittance is a key source of external resources flowing for developing countries. Remittance inflow in the developing countries, are the addition to the resources send by migrant worker. The study was conducted among 200 respondents in Ramechhap Municipality to evaluate the role of remittance and its impact on the livelihood. This investigation deals with the livelihood pattern and the socio – economic condition of Municipality which lies east part of the Ramechhap district of Nepal. The study applied Descriptive and analytical research in which, primary data were collected through questionnaire methods, survey and field observation in order to examine the role of remittance in education attainment and its impacts in livelihood pattern. The study was conducted among 200 household, random sampling was used to collect the data through questionnaire methods in this Municipality. The result shows that positive relationship between remittance and education. Remittance recipient expenditure was high on education than non - recipient. There is positive relationship between household size and consumption. The result also reflects that there is a positive relationship between level of education and consumption. It indicated that higher the level of remittance recipient was spending more than the non-recipients in all measure of (H.D.I). In general, remittance recipient household tend to spent more on consumption, health and education as compared to remittance non – remittance receiving households.

Keywords: Migration, Remittance, Education, Consumption, Health, Expenditure.