Dhaka, Oct. 10 -- Speakers at a seminar on Saturday said Bangladesh and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia need to move beyond traditional manpower export and build a broader strategic partnership focusing on skilled migration, investment, trade diversification, technology and human capital development.

They stressed the need to align Bangladesh's workforce development with Saudi Arabia's changing labour market demands under its Vision 2030 programme, while ensuring fair recruitment, workers' rights and better protection for migrant workers.

Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) and the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) of North South University (NSU) jointly hosted the seminar titled "From Workforce to Strategic...