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The macroeconomic impact of remittances in Ghana
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004This paper presents Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates of private remittances for Ghana.DocumentWorkers' remittances: an important and stable source of external development finance
World Bank, 2003This 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 exportsDocumentRemittances: "the money of the migrants"
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004This 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 transfers functions.Volume of remittances:Remittances have become the second largest capital inflow to developing countries behind foreign direct investmenDocumentAnnual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization
Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.DocumentThe globalization of the software industry: perspectives and opportunities for developed and developing countries
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern in the USA.DocumentCopenhagen Consensus: challenge paper on population and migration
Copenhagen Consensus, 2004Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overall goal is to create a world in which migration is unnecessary because sufficient opportunity exists at home.DocumentMigrant remittances to developing countries: a scoping study: overview and introduction to issues for pro-poor financial services
Bannock Consulting, 2003This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services.DocumentRemittances and other financial flows to developing countries
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are quite conservative. Official estimates of migrants’ remittances are in the order of US$ 100 billion annually, some 60 percent of which go to developing countries.Pages
