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  Dynamics of remittance utilization in Bangladesh

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This report looks at the importance of remittances for the economic development of the origin countries of migrant communities. The report takes Bangladesh as a case study.The report answers the following three questions: what is the impact of remittances on households and the broader community in Bangladesh?
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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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  Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2004

  This paper reports on the findings of a survey on migration and pro-poor policy in Africa.
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  Those in Kayes: the impact of remittances on their recipients in Africa

  European Development Research Network, 2004

  Using data collected in the Kayes area in Western Mali this paper investigates whether migration and remittances are an impediment to technical efficiency in agriculture because migration as an insurance mechanism can give rise to moral hazard.Findings of the study include:although migration has certainly helped the adoption of improved agricultural technology, migrant households do not
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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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  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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  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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