Africa Remmitance Markets. IFAD

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IFAD Report on Africa Remmitance Markets

The International Fund for Agricultural Development has issued a new report on  African remittances marketplace.The report is based on the results of a study commissioned by IFAD covering three aspects of: market competition,regulatory environment, and financial access.The report outlines the main results of a study of regulatory issues and market competition in 50 African countries representing 90 per cent of remittance flows to the region. In addition, the report highlights the results of a survey of people within the geographical reach of microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are members of the International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions (INAFI) in 19 countries. From UN Pulse
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Migration And Remittances. World Bank

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Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008
This site provides free access to an online version of the Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008 compiled by the World Bank. It offers a statistical snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world. Individual country files include total numbers of migrants and emigrants, inward and outward remittance flows from migrant labourers. There are also top 10 tables and some regional comparisons of the economic costs and benefits of international migration .Sources of data and methodology are given on the website.
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:2

Migration and remittances: World Bank resources
This site is maintained by the World Bank. It provides free acess to a wealth of resources relating to World Bank research on the economics of international migration. This includes coverage of migration trends; the economics of migration and migrant labour. The section on remittances gives facts and figures on flows of remittances sent in and out of specific regions and countries by migrant workers and members of disaporas. Resources include press releases, statistics, datafiles, documents and working papers. Information on sources and methodology of data collection are displayed on the website. There is stong coverage of the impact of migration flows on developing nations of Asia and Africa.
http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:2

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Remittances

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Remittances
Source: Connecticut Law Review, Forthcoming (via SSRN)

Remittances, the sending of money from immigrants back to their home countries, are the newest anti-poverty, development activity of the poor to be applauded by international institutions and economists. Exceeding foreign aid and private investment to many developing countries, remittances are being hailed as a new, untapped resource with powerful poverty alleviation and potentially development attributes. After presenting the poverty, developmental, and economic characteristics of this new transnational connection between immigrants and their loved ones, as well as the dangerous effects of excessive remittance regulation, this paper argues that remittances should be understood as an anti-poverty tool, but not as a route to development.

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Worldwide Remittance Flows To Developing Countries

Economic conditions and policy Migrant workers Remittances from expatriate and migrant workers Trackbacks (0)

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has issued a new report on remittances, money sent by migrant workers back to their home countries. According to Sending Money Home: Worldwide Remittance Flows to Developing Countries (pdf, 18.1 MB), an estimated 150 million migrants worldwide sent more than US$300 billion to their families in developing countries during 2006, typically US$100, US$200 or US$300 at a time, through more than 1.5 billion separate financial transactions. You may learn more from the IFAD press release, UN news story, or from the information related to the 2007 International Forum on Remittances.

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