Recommended reading

Global economic prospects 2006: economic implications of migration and remittances

( D. Ratha; W.| Shaw / Prospects for the Global Economy [World Bank] , 2006)

This report explores the gains and losses from international migration from the perspective of developing countries, with special attention to the money that migrants send home. The report also consid...

Recognising the importance of international migration

( Eldis Gender Resource Guide , 2006)

The recent UN High Level Dialogue on Migration provided a platform for the articulation of many related issues that are bound up with the possibilities and perils of globalisation. A key theme of the ...

Remittances in crises: a Haiti case study

( P. Fagan / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI , 2006)

This study examines the role of remittances to Haiti’s third largest city, Gonaives, after it was destroyed by the September 2004 tropical storm Jean. The author finds that:migrant remittances...

The macroeconomics of remittances: the case of Tajikistan

( A. Kireyev / International Monetary Fund , 2006)

Labour migration and associated remittances have been a largely unexpected result of the transition of Tajikistan to a market economy. Against a background of economic instability and civil distress, ...

Migrant remittances in the context of crisis in Somali society: a case study of Hargeisa

( A. Lindley / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI , 2006)

Observing that migration and remittances have been an important feature of Somali society since the breakout of civil war in 1988 and the collapse of the state in 1991, this paper argues that data on ...

Diasporas, remittances and Africa south of the Sahara: a strategic assessment

( M. A. P. De Montclos / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa , 2005)

Modern African "ethno-national" diasporas of today are very different from the "old" black diaspora which emerged out of the slave trade. Contemporary migrants are very much in touch with their homela...

Remittances and other financial flows to developing countries

( P. Gammeltoft / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2002)

This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remi...

Migration and the remittance euphoria: development or dependency?

( New Economics Foundation , 2006)

This report is critical of the attention paid to the role of migrant remittances in promoting economic growth. It argues that little attention is being paid to the effects on sustainable development, ...

Brain drain and beyond: returns and remittances of highly skilled migrants

( A. Tanner / Global Commission on International Migration , 2005)

What consequences do the recruitment immigration policies of the developed world and the strongly increasing international migration of the talented have on the societal problems of the developing wor...