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  Macroeconomic determinants of remittances: evidence from India

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  India is one of the largest recipients of remittances, increasing at a rate of about 13 percent a year since 1991. This paper analyses the macroeconomic factors that might explain these dynamics.
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  Global economic prospects 2006: economic implications of migration and remittances

  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.
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  Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. It looks at links between migration, aging, the economy and politics in sending countries.
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  Globalisation and education: what do the trade, investment and migration literatures tell us?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper examines the effects of education on globalisation, and vice versa, the effects of globalisation on education, as well as looking at the role of public policies in reconciling processes of human resource development and globalisation.The main links between economic globalisation processes and education are examined by discussing and testing three issues:the quantity and quali
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  Diasporas, remittances and Africa south of the Sahara: a strategic assessment

  Institute for Security Studies, 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 homeland, to which they often remit money on a regular basis. They have an economic and political role to play in the countries of departure as well as arrival.
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  Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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  Those in Kayes: the impact of remittances on their recipients in Africa

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  Using data collected in the Kayes area in Western Mali this paper investigates whether migration and remittances are an impediment to technical efficiency in agriculture because migration as an insurance mechanism can give rise to moral hazard.Findings of the study include:although migration has certainly helped the adoption of improved agricultural technology, migrant households do not
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  Remittances: the new development mantra?

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2003

  This paper examines remittance flows to developing countries.
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  Diaspora, migration and development in the Caribbean

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper examines the developmental impact of the growth of the diasporic economy on Caribbean countries, focusing on the issues of remittances, diasporic exports, brain drain, as well as the new health and security risks associated with migration and mobile populations.It asks whether the benefits of migration such as remittances, diasporic exports and the vent of surplus population redress
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  Remittances, the rural sector, and policy options in Latin America

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2003

  This paper examines the policy opportunities that remittances bring to rural areas where migration has taken place. Remittances pose a very important financial stream in rural areas of Latin America. Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guyana and Guatemala, where at least one quarter of remittances go to their rural areas.

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