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    Migrant networks and foreign direct investment

    World Bank Publications, 2006
    What are the effects of ethic networks on foreign direct investment (FDI)? This study investigates the link between the presence of migrants in the United States and U.S. FDI in 56 of the migrants' countries of origin.
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    The migration of physicians from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States of America: measures of the African brain drain

    Human Resources for Health, 2004
    This Human Resources for Health paper details the characteristics and trends in migration to the United States (US) of physicians trained in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings reveal that more than 23 per cent of US physicians were trained outside of the US, with a majority trained in low-income or lower middle-income countries.
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    Twilight statuses: a closer examination of the unauthorized population

    Migration Policy Institute, 2005
    This paper discusses the situation of unauthorised migrants in the United States, describing the twilight statuses that some among the unauthorised population hold. These are described as partially recognised legal statuses not yet counting as full lawful residence, and usually not providing solid defence against deportation if they are discovered and placed into removal proceedings.
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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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    The Indian diaspora’s political efforts in the United States

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
    As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian origin.
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    Remittance senders and receivers: tracking the transnational channels

    2003
    According to IADB, total remittances are due to surpass foreign direct investment as a source of capital for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2003. The total aggregate of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean during this decade is conservatively projected to reach more than $450 billion.
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    International migration, remittances and the brain drain: a study of 24 labor-exporting countries

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper constructs a new data set of 24 large, labour-exporting countries using estimates of migration and educational attainment based on United States and OECD records.The paper uses this new data set to provide some perspective on the importance of international migration.

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