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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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  The macroeconomic impact of remittances in Ghana

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This paper presents Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates of private remittances for Ghana.
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  Workers' remittances: an important and stable source of external development finance

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of workers’ remittances as a source of development finance in developing countries and discusses measures that industrial and developing countries could take to increase remittances.The paper first analyses trends and cycles in workers’ remittances in developing countries and compares them to other sources of foreign exchange earnings, such as exports
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  NEPAD, the city, and the immigrant

  University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004

  South Africa has experienced a large influx of migrants from other African countries since the early 1990s, reflecting the lifting of apartheid-era boycotts against travel to South Africa; increasing political and social turmoil, for example in Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria; and a growing economic crisis.
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  World Employment Report 2004-2005: employment, productivity and poverty reduction

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This year's ILO report finds that half the world's workers (some 1.4 billion people) are trapped in grinding poverty unable to earn enough to lift themselves and their families above the US$2 a day poverty line.
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  Migration and social protection: a concept paper

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003

  This paper presents a theoretical and empirical framework in which to understand the relationships between vulnerability, migration and social protection.
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  In search of work: international migration of women in Latin America and the Caribbean, selected bibliography

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This bibliography on the migration of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in search of work forms part of the activities of the ECLAC/GTZ project "Gender oriented labour market policy," whose main objective is to promote the implementation of measures in favour of equality in employment and labour market policies.
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  Internal migration and the development nexus: the case of Bangladesh

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty and inequality.
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  China migration country study

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of the causes, impacts and implications of both internal migration within China and international migration from China, drawing on interviews with key researchers and policy advisors; a review of recent literature; and analysis of published and unpublished research data.Its main findings include that: in the late 1990s, China's cities had attracted close
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  A review of migration issues in Pakistan

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This paper reviews the various issues surrounding migration into, out of, and within Pakistan, drawing on sources including population census data, official data on foreign exchange remittances sent by Pakistanis abroad, and estimates of trafficking into Pakistan.Its findings include that: according to 1998 census records, some 10 million people, or 8 per cent of the population of Pakis

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