This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …

This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … flows, leveraging remittances for improving access to finance of recipient households and countries, improving recruitment …

countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic … attention to remittances. The first chapter reviews recent developments in and prospects for the global economy and their … policies in improving the development impact of remittances, and, their macroeconomic impact. Chapter 5 addresses the impact of …

This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin … development implications for both sending and receiving countries. For a sending country, migration and the resulting remittances … flows, leveraging remittances for improving access to finance of recipient households and countries, improving recruitment …