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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Migration, Remittances, Remittances impact of remittances

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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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  Remittances and poverty in Guatemala

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper uses a large, nationally representative household survey to analyse the impact of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala.
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  International migration, remittances, and poverty in developing countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries.
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  Remittances and other financial flows to developing countries

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002

  This 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.

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