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Searching with a thematic focus on Globalisation, Gender and migration, Migration, Remittances

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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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  Migration and development: how to make migration work for poverty reduction

  UK Parliament, 2004

  This report illustrates how governments and organisations can make migration work for the poor.
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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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  Migrant remittances to developing countries: a scoping study: overview and introduction to issues for pro-poor financial services

  Bannock Consulting, 2003

  This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services.
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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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