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Worker Remittances: The Human Face of Globalization
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This report is a comparative study of worldwide transfer costs to nine countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and specifically at costs for immigrants to send money from major sending countries including from the United States. It also compares these international trends with costs and trends of...
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Worker Remittances: The Human Face of Globalization
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This report is a comparative study of worldwide transfer costs to nine countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and specifically at costs for immigrants to send money from major sending countries including from the United States. It also compares these international trends with costs and trends of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198892
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Vergleich von prognostizierter und tatsächlicher Migration nach Deutschland nach der EU-Osterweiterung
Rövekamp, Ingmar - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 06, pp. 20-26
Vor der EU-Osterweiterung von 2004 gab es große Diskussionen um die Wanderungsströme aus den neuen Mitgliedsstaaten. Zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Studien prognostizierten ein Migrationspotenzial nach Deutschland in der Größenordnung von eins bis drei Millionen Personen. Vergleicht man diese...
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Toward an Objective-Driven System of Smart Labor Migration Management
Holzmann, Robert; Pouget, Yann - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 42, pp. 1-5
This policy note offers motivation and a game plan for achieving a coherent and mutually beneficial labor migration system.1 It argues that migrant workers may make important contributions to economic growth and development in both sending and receiving countries if they find enabling...
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Were the Workplaces in Danger after the Crisis – Answers based on a Questionnaire Research
Csiszárik-Kocsir, Ágnes; Medve, András - Keleti Károly Gazdasági Kar, Óbudai Egyetem
Following the eruption of the greatest crisis in the new millennium, the crisis has spread worldwide at a record pace including every economy, region and has left all of them ruined. The crisis, thanks to the global money markets, has reached the whole world, each of its sectors and players. One...
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Aproximación crítica al Gobierno de Alvaro Uribe
Sánchez, Ricardo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
Una aproximación crítica al gobierno de Álvaro Uribe Vélez constituye unaporte para leer las dimensiones de la crisis nacional en el entramado de lapolítica y la economía. Resaltando los contextos internacionales másdeterminantes, al igual que los propósitos más significativos de la...
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Was wird aus Griechenland? Überlegungen zu einem Insolvenzrecht für internationale Staatsschulden
Schäfer, Hans-Bernd - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 06, pp. 18-25
Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Institut für Recht und Ökonomik, Universität Hamburg, und Bucerius Law School, Hochschule für Rechtswissenschaft, Hamburg, plädiert in seinem Kommentar für ein internationales Insolvenzrecht. In Abwesenheit eines solchen Rechtsrahmens stellt er vier Optionen vor, die...
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Der Einfluss der Griechenlandkrise auf den Bankensektor Kollateralschäden der Griechenlandkrise
Borchert, Manfred - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 64 (2011) 22, pp. 19-22
In seinem Kommentar befasst sich Manfred Borchert, Universität Münster, mit der Auswirkung der schlechten Bewertung von griechischen Staatsanleihen auf die Bilanzen der europäischen Banken.
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Affluent years are over: emigration and development in the Yemen Arab Republic.
N, Fergany - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1980
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on economic development impact of labour force emigration in Yemen - discusses migration …
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Socotra Island, Yemen: field survey of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Fritz, Hermann; Okal, Emile - In: Natural Hazards 46 (2008) 1, pp. 107-117
The tsunami of 26th December 2004 severely affected Yemen’s Socotra Island with a death at a distance of 4,600 km from … the epicenter of the Magnitude 9.0 earthquake. Yemen allowed a detailed assessment of the far-field impact of a tsunami in … the east to the west tip of Socotra. The international team members were on the ground in Yemen from 11 to 19 October 2006 …
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