Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Remittances: An Overview -- Part I … Remittance Trends and Determinants -- Chapter 1 Workers' Remittances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development … Finance -- Chapter 2 Migrant Remittances in Africa: A Regional Perspective -- Part II Maximizing the Development Impact of …

majority of countries, in both sending and receiving countries, collect data on remittances, and 43 percent of receiving … countries estimate informal remittances, there is a need for more frequent and better coordinated data collection, both across … to address the high costs of remittances. The joint African Development Bank-World Bank Africa Migration Project and G-8 …

destinations and the labour markets for migrants the more resilient are the remittances sent by migrants. Second, the lower the … barriers to labor mobility, the stronger the link between remittances and economic cycles in that corridor. And third, as … remittances proved to be relatively resilient in comparison to private capital flows, many remittance-dependent countries became …

Millions of migrants worldwide send billions of dollars in remittances each year to their families or communities of … origin. In many developing countries, remittances are an important source of family and national income and also are the … largest source of external financing. Remittances are better targeted at the needs of the poor than foreign aid or foreign …

-- Data on Remittances1 -- Sources of Data -- Bibliography -- Migration and Remittances: Top 10 Countries -- Introduction … -- World -- Migration -- Migration, 2005 -- Skilled Emigration, 2000 -- Remittances -- Developing Countries -- Migration … -- Emigration, 2005 -- Skilled Emigration, 2000 -- Immigration, 2005 -- Remittances -- Regional Tables -- Introduction -- East Asia …

South-South Migration and Remittances reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on … of South-South remittances range from 9 to 30 percent of developing countries' remittance receipts in 2005. Although the … increases in income can have substantial welfare implications for the poor. The costs of South-South remittances are even higher …

evidence on the impact of migration and remittances on several development indicators, including innovative thinking about the … -- Introduction -- Who Is a Migrant? What Is the Extent of International Migration? -- Do International Migration and Remittances … Reduce Poverty? -- What is the Link between Migration and Remittances on the One Hand and Investments in Education and …

Remittances are the largest sources of foreign funds and are critical for economic development in South Asia. However … remittances in environmental degradation using a sample of five South Asian countries from 1990 to 2021. A non-linear multivariate … proxy for environmental quality and confirms the asymmetric long and short-run link between remittances and environmental …