Remittances
- Assessing strategies to support emigrants from Kerala to the United Arab Emirates
- K.C. Zachariah; B.A. Prakash; S. Irudaya Rajan / Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002
- The total stock of Indian emigrants in the Arab region in 2000 was estimated to be about 3.07 million. Of them, about 1 million are reported to be in UAE. The total stock of Kerala emigrants in UAE was about 500,000 in 2001. Current e...
- How much money do countries receive from migrant remittances, and what are the benefits?
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004
- This brief paper summarises knowledge on migrant remittances in three main areas: the volume of global and regional remittances; the development role of remittances and how this money is used; and how the market for remittance transfe...
- UK government report on value of remittances for poverty reduction
- UK Parliament, 2004
- This report illustrates how governments and organisations can make migration work for the poor. It looks at the opportunities for improving the quality of migration, and ways in which policy can shape and respond to migration to make ...
- Can the Indian diaspora in the United State play the role of facilitator between New Delhi and Washington?
- A. Gupta / Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
- As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian ori...
- Finding correlations between international migration, remittances and poverty reduction
- R.H. Adams; J. Page / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. It constructs a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and m...
- Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society
- S. Niombo / Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003
- African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating information through Internet ? Wh...
- How can regulation boost remittance flows to Africa?
- C. Sander; S.M. Maimbo / World Bank in Africa, 2003
- This paper presents a preliminary analysis of migrant remittances in Africa based on a review of widely dispersed data and documentation. Its purpose is to stimulate and inform discussions of the role remittances play in African econo...
- Migrant remittances to developing countries
- C. Sander / Bannock Consulting, 2003
- This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services. It looks at remittance flows, channels and transaction costs, related regulations...
- Remittances are an important source of finance for Latin America
- R. Suro 2003
- According to IADB, total remittances are due to surpass foreign direct investment as a source of capital for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2003. The total aggregate of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean during this de...
- Is money being sent back home equating to overseas development assistance (ODA) for Sri Lanka?
- D. Sriskandarajah / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
- Sri Lanka has been the source of large numbers of migrants and the recipient of much development assistance, but what is the nature and extent of the links between development assistance and migration flows in the country? This paper ...
- Assessing strategies to support emigrants from Kerala to the United Arab Emirates
- K.C. Zachariah; B.A. Prakash; S. Irudaya Rajan / Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2002
- The total stock of Indian emigrants in the Arab region in 2000 was estimated to be about 3.07 million. Of them, about 1 million are reported to be in UAE. The total stock of Kerala emigrants in UAE was about 500,000 in 2001. Current e...
- How much money do countries receive from migrant remittances, and what are the benefits?
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004
- This brief paper summarises knowledge on migrant remittances in three main areas: the volume of global and regional remittances; the development role of remittances and how this money is used; and how the market for remittance transfe...
- UK government report on value of remittances for poverty reduction
- UK Parliament, 2004
- This report illustrates how governments and organisations can make migration work for the poor. It looks at the opportunities for improving the quality of migration, and ways in which policy can shape and respond to migration to make ...
- Can the Indian diaspora in the United State play the role of facilitator between New Delhi and Washington?
- A. Gupta / Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
- As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian ori...
- Finding correlations between international migration, remittances and poverty reduction
- R.H. Adams; J. Page / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. It constructs a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and m...
- Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society
- S. Niombo / Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003
- African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating information through Internet ? Wh...
- How can regulation boost remittance flows to Africa?
- C. Sander; S.M. Maimbo / World Bank in Africa, 2003
- This paper presents a preliminary analysis of migrant remittances in Africa based on a review of widely dispersed data and documentation. Its purpose is to stimulate and inform discussions of the role remittances play in African econo...
- Migrant remittances to developing countries
- C. Sander / Bannock Consulting, 2003
- This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services. It looks at remittance flows, channels and transaction costs, related regulations...
- Remittances are an important source of finance for Latin America
- R. Suro 2003
- According to IADB, total remittances are due to surpass foreign direct investment as a source of capital for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2003. The total aggregate of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean during this de...
- Is money being sent back home equating to overseas development assistance (ODA) for Sri Lanka?
- D. Sriskandarajah / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
- Sri Lanka has been the source of large numbers of migrants and the recipient of much development assistance, but what is the nature and extent of the links between development assistance and migration flows in the country? This paper ...
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