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This book contains the findings from the third wave of a migration focused panel survey in Bangladesh. It examines the interrelationships between labour migration, poverty, and development based on 6,100 interviews including international labour migrants, internal migrants and non-migrant households spanning 20 districts of Bangladesh. The first wave of survey (2014) found that among these three groups poverty level is much lower for international labour migrant households. The second wave (2017), demonstrated that between 2014 and 2017 poverty rates among all three household types reduced further. This book presents findings of the third wave of the panel survey (2020) which was fielded amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple climate related disasters. It finds that sample households are remarkably resilient to these shocks and that the trend in poverty reduction continues across sample waves. Throughout the survey poverty rates have been the lowest among international migrant households. Nonetheless, the poverty rate declines most rapidly and consistently among internal migrant households. This finding has major policy ramifications. It asserts that migration – both internal and international - can be a core element of transformation to economic sustainability. These results show that it is imperative that policy makers to give just as much consideration to facilitating and supporting internal migration as is given to international migration. All three waves of the panel surveys have been supported by Embassy of Switzerland.