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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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  Migrant remittances and development cooperation

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2005

  This report, commissioned by the Norwegian Development Agency (Norad), provides an overview of the development issues relating to remittances with the aim of providing a basis for making sound decisions on whether, how, and where to proceed with initiatives in this field.It examines the financial scale of the contribution which remittances make to developing country economies (particularly rela
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  Globalization, immigrants' transnational agency and economic development in their homelands

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper looks at transnational immigrant communities living in Canada, focusing on the issues of remittance market development in the south, and some of the most recent initiatives that rich countries and some international development authorities have either launched or are contemplating to improve remittance market efficiency.
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  Think local, act global: labour migration and emerging challenges of policymaking in a transnational world

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper looks at the dynamics of international migration of labour as part of a process of mutual interdependence between sending and host areas.
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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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  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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  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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