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Sri Lanka's migrant labor remittances: enhancing the quality and outreach of the rural remittance infrastructure
World Bank Publications, 2005With the increasing trend and growth of migrant remittances, the Sri Lankan Central Bank is now debating the following key issues: the developmental impact of remittances; the high transaction costs associated with remittances; and the level of transparency and accountability in the remittance industry, especially the informal remittance sector.DocumentGlobalization and goals: does soccer show the way?
World Bank Publications, 2003This paper uses the example of the globalised game of football to illustrate how forces of efficiency but also inequality unleashed by globalisation can be used by global institutions to help improve the outcome for the poor countries.The paper examines the effects of free circulation of labour combined with increasing commercialisation on the concentration of soccer quality in a few top clubs.DocumentFrom brain drain to brain gain: how the WTO can make migration a win-win
Overseas Development Institute, 2005This short article examines the issues surrounding international free trade in labour markets.DocumentGlobal economic prospects 2006: economic implications of migration and remittances
Prospects for the Global Economy [World Bank], 2006This 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.DocumentHuman resources: international context: Chapter 6 of the South African Health Review 2005
Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2005This chapter, from the South African Health Review 2005, reviews human resources for health in South Africa from an international perspective. It highlights the vast inequities in global and regional distribution of health workers and briefly examines those factors affecting human resource development.DocumentMigrant remittances and the financial market in Moldova
BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2005This short brief focuses on the Moldovian financial infrastructure for remittances and the potential for attracting a greater share of these funds to savings and investments.DocumentPromoting fair human flows: an Arab human development perspective
Global Development Network, 2005The potential for emigration from a country of origin is essentially determined by perceived disparity in welfare between the country of origin and likely countries of destination. For a meaningful assessment of migratory potential, welfare has to be defined in a wide sense, a material one as well as a non-material one.DocumentGlobalization, skilled migration and poverty alleviation: brain drains in context
Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2005The paper provides an analysis of skilled migration and identifies main global trends. It goes on to examine the globalisation of education and of health as reflected in the movement of students and health personnel. The paper examines the case for a two-tiered health training system, one for global markets and the other for local markets.DocumentCurrent trends in migrants’ remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: an evaluation of their social and economic importance
Latin American Economic System, Venezuela, 2004It is widely recognized that international migrants make fundamental contributions not only for the development of the economies and communities to which they emigrate but also for the economic development of their countries of origin, specifically through the transfers of remittances.DocumentInternational migration, remittances and the brain drain
World Bank Publications, 2005This study examines the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development. A compilation of articles are structured into two parts in the volume.Pages