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  Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.
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  Indigenous peoples, poverty and human development in Latin America: 1994-2004

  World Bank, 2005

  This executive summary presents findings of a report exploring whether the UN International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, opened in 1994, was accompanied by material and human development gains for Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.Findings of the report include:few gains were made in income poverty reduction among Indigenous Peoples during the Indigenous Peoples’ decade (
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Home-based workers: neglected by policy-makers and labour organisers?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Homeworkers are a flexible and cheap labour force and almost 80 percent of them are female. They are ‘invisible’ in the regular labour market and their interests and priorities are not at the forefront of political or labour organisations. It is difficult for them to demand higher wages, job security or improved working conditions.
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  Exploiting remittances: good for Mexico’s development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  More and more money is being sent back home by economic migrants and so the interest in how remittances can help fight poverty is growing. The total value of remittances world wide is estimated at over 100 billion US dollars per year. In 2001 Mexico became the nation with the largest share of remittances as its workers sent home 9,920 million US dollars.
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  Beyond remittances: the role of diaspora in poverty reduction in their countries of origin

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2004

  This paper analyses the impact of established Diaspora on the reduction of poverty, and identifies ways in which policy interventions, especially from donors of official development assistance, might strengthen that impact.This paper specifically: examines the role of Diaspora in poverty reduction through four main areas of focus: policy and practice towards Diaspora on the part
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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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  Remittances: "the money of the migrants"

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This 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 investmen
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  The determinants of poverty in Mexico

  Global Development Network, 2002

  The high poverty rates prevalent in Mexico are a reflection of both low incomes and an unequal income distribution, but what factors determine poverty?
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  Business Cycles in Emerging Economies:The Role of Interest Rates

  Global Development Network, 2002

  This paper documents the empirical relation between the interest rates that emerging economies face in international capital markets and their business cycles, using data including quarterly data for Argentina during 1983-2000 and for Brazil, Mexico, Korea, and Philippines, during 1994-2000.The paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy, in which:firms ha

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