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Remittances, migration and social development: a conceptual review of the literature
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2007This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationship between remittances and various dimensions of social development in the developing world within a broader conceptual framework of migration and development theory. Empirical and theoretical research highlights the heterogeneous nature of migration-remittance-development interactions.DocumentDevelopment financing and the remittance market in Serbia and Switzerland
State Secretariat for Economic Cooperation and Development, Switzerland, 2007As an important origin of remittances, Switzerland is very interested in concepts and projects which facilitate and render more secure transfers of remittances.DocumentClose to home: development impact of remittances in Latin America
World Bank, 2006The report focuses on the impact of remittances on poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report analyses the characteristics of households that are remittance recipients and how these characteristics affect the poverty-reducing impact of observed remittances flows.DocumentThe impact of international migration on the economic development of countries in the Mediterranean basin
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2006The intense debate continues on the potential poverty reducing effects of remittances. This paper analyses the impact migrant workers’ remittances have in stimulating local economic development.DocumentMigration policy and its interactions with aid, trade, and foreign direct investment policies: a background paper
OECD Development Centre, 2006This paper reviews the literature on the interconnections between migration, rich-country trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and development assistance, and the positive and negative effects on the sending countries’ development.DocumentDo workers’ remittances promote financial development?
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006Workers’ remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment.DocumentRemittances, poverty reduction and the informalisation of household wellbeing in Zimbabwe
ESRC Global Poverty Research Group, 2006The term "Brain Drain" seems to be the latest development catch phrase. Cited in journalism and academia alike, its meaning is somewhat ambiguous.DocumentGive us your best and brightest: the global hunt for talent and its impact on the developing world
Center for Global Development, USA, 2005This book discusses the challenges and opportunities posed by the international migration of labour to developing countries.DocumentMigrant remittances in the context of crisis in Somali society: a case study of Hargeisa
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006Observing that migration and remittances have been an important feature of Somali society since the breakout of civil war in 1988 and the collapse of the state in 1991, this paper argues that data on the scale and effects of remittances remains limited.DocumentRemittances in crises: a Haiti case study
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006This study examines the role of remittances to Haiti’s third largest city, Gonaives, after it was destroyed by the September 2004 tropical storm Jean. The author finds that:migrant remittances make up a ‘chain of solidarity’, from neighbours, relatives living in other parts of the country, international humanitarian agencies, and overseas relatives.Pages