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Labor migration and remittances in the GCC

by George S. Naufal. Labor History. Volume 52, Issue 3, pages 307-322, 2011. This paper gives an overview of the movement of people and money in the GCC countries. The Gulf region is the third most important migration region in the world. It also embraces top remittance sending countries. Historically, the demand for foreign labor was met [...]

Remittances for Studies Abroad [RBI Data]

RBI Database on Indian Economy The “Study Abroad” Remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme for Resident Individuals was Rs.840/- Crore [USD 150.1 million] during the year 2010-11. URL: http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=statistics Courtesy: RBI

Remittances, Inflation and Exchange Rate Regimes inSmall Open Economies

by Christopher P Ball; Claude Lopez and Javier Reyes MPRA Paper no.39852, July 2012 Remittances are private monetary transfers across borders and thus, often, involve different currencies. Yet the rapidly growing literature on the subject often ignores the role that exchange rate regimes play in determining the effect foreign-currency remittances have on a recipient economy. [...]

Worker Migration and Remittances in South Asia

by Mayumi Ozaki ADB South Asia Working Paper Series no.12, May 2012 Every year South Asian countries send out a significant number of migrant workers, resulting in remittances becoming an important source of funds for economic development. However, despite its huge potential to contribute to economic growth, South Asian countries have not yet fully maximized [...]

Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in China and Korea: AnEmpirical Analysis

by Syed Tehseen Jawaid and Syed Ali Raza MPRA Paper No.39003, May 2012 This study investigates the relationship between workers’ remittances and economic growth in China and Korea by employing time series data from period of 1980 to 2009. Cointegration results confirm that there exist significant positive long run relationship between remittances and economic growth [...]

Migration, Transnational Flows, and Development in India:A Regional Perspective

by Carol Upadhya and Mario Rutten Economic & Political Weekly , May 12, 2012 The relationship between migration and development is a key area in research and policymaking. The contributions of international migrants to their home countries in the form of remittances, investments, and philanthropic donations are widely regarded as an important development resource. This [...]

New rivers of gold: Remittances from unlikely places are helping poor countries in the downturn

The Economist. Apr 28th 2012 The value of remittances to poor countries is enormous. Since 1996 they have been worth more than all overseas-development aid, and for most of the past decade more than private debt and portfolio equity inflows. In 2011 remittances to poor countries totalled $372 billion, according to the World Bank (total [...]

EU-India Bilateral Remittances

by Chinmay Tumbe IIMB Working Ppaer No.360, 2012 A hundred years ago, during colonial times, more than a hundred thousand migrants from Britain and Ireland worked in India, mostly as soldiers and administrators. In contrast, only around 4,000 Indians lived in Britain: 1,000 students and 2,500 persons working in navigation related activities. As a result, [...]

The Remittance Market in India : Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Options

Gabi G Afram World Bank 2012 In chapter one, this report maps the patterns and characteristics of migration flows from India; in chapter two, it provides a detailed discussion of remittance flows to India in terms of their importance, sources, uses, trends, costs, and links to financial access. In chapter three, the report describes the remittance [...]

The Developing Economies, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2012

Original Articles CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS: EVIDENCE FROM CHILE RODRIGO VERGARA REMITTANCES AND AGGREGATE LABOR SUPPLY: EVIDENCE FROM SIXTY-SIX DEVELOPING NATIONS ALBERTO POSSO TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND WAGE PREMIUM IN ARGENTINA: THE ROLE OF TRADE FACTOR INTENSITY PEDRO E. MONCARZ URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/deve.2012.50.issue-1/issuetoc

Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge against Food Price Shocks?

by Jean-Louis Combes, Christian Ebeke, Mireille Ntsama Etoundi, and Thierry Yogo IMF Working Paper  WP/12/67 This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important [...]

Financial Crisis and Migrant Remittances: Effects on Growth and Poverty in SelectedSouth Asian Countries

by Azam Chaudhry; Naved Hamid and Salamn Asim SANEI WP No. 11-06 The world has recently witnessed its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. As the crisis worsened, its effects spread to the developing world. South Asia was no exception with the growth rates registering a sharp decline in the latter half of 2008 [...]

Agricultural Progress and Poverty Reduction

Joe Dewbre,  Dalila Cervantes-Godoy,  Silvia Sorescu OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers No. 49 Achieving the Millennium Development Goal to halve global poverty by 2015 looks increasingly likely, although many countries may fall far short of this goal. This study compares socio-economic characteristics of twenty-five countries that have posted exceptional progress in reducing poverty [...]

Local economic development and migrant remittances in rural Zimbabwe: building on sand or solid ground?

Gracsious Ncube and Georgina M. Gómez ISS Working Paper No. 523  May 2011 The paper explores the impact of migrant remittances on local economic development in a locality where more than half of the households have been recipients for at least five years. The study has taken place in rural Zimbabwe and uses an ethnographic [...]

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