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- Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments and Outlook
- World Bank - Remittances to developing countries are expected to top $436 billion in 2014. Viet Nam is one of the top 10 recipients of remittances - receiving ...
- How migrants control one of the world’s most powerful economic engines
- PBS Newshour - 13 April 2015 - When Dilip Ratha arrived in the United States in 1990, he had $20 in his pocket and a plan to send money back home. Only with ...
- TED Talk - Dilip Ratha: The hidden force in global economics: sending money home
- In 2013, international migrants sent $413 billion home to families and friends — three times more than the total of global foreign aid (about $135 billion). ...
- Indonesian migrants' remittances fail to develop economy at home-study
- Daily Mail - 14 August 2015 - In a small, farming district in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province, thousands of women leave home each year to cook, clean ...
- Fiji's skilled migration losses filled by increasing remittances
- Fiji's low wages may drive skilled people overseas, but the remittances they send back will probably boost the economy. Fiji's skilled migration losses filled ...
- Remittances seen hitting $24 billion in 2014
- Business Mirror - 13 January 2015 - Cash remittances should prove once again as one of the pillars of the Philippine economy in 2014, as money sent home by ...
- Labor Migration and Inclusive Growth: Toward Creating Employment in Origin Communities
- This paper investigates the intersection of labor migration and the inclusive growth agenda, and seeks to recommend policies so governments of origin countries ...
- Worker remittances rise on Thai transfers
- Phnom Penh Post - 15 January 2016 - Remittances received by Acleda Bank and Western Union, two of Cambodia’s leading institutions for cross-border money ...
- Remittances and Rashomon - Working Paper 285
- Center for Global Development - 2012. "Utilizing a novel data set on remittance data for India that matches household surveys to administrative bank data, we ...
- Conflict-induced migration and remittances: exploring conceptual frameworks
- Refugee Studies Centre - 2008. "Remittances – the money that migrants send home – are a key element in the socioeconomic reality of many conflict-affected and ...
- Global remittances set to rise to $399bn
- Arabian Business - June 16, 2012. "Migrant workers, of which millions work in the Gulf region, are projected to remit about $399bn to their home countries ...
- Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
- World Bank - 2012. "The financial crisis of 2008 started with the collapse of the financial sector in the United States and Western Europe, then quickly spread ...
- WB: PHL remittances higher amid inflation
- GMA News - May 24, 2011. "Despite its ballooning inflation rate, the Philippines posted the second highest growth of remittances among developing countries for ...
- World Bank: Migration and Development Brief 25
- Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments and Outlook, October 2015
- Toast raises seed funding to help migrant workers in Singapore send money back home
- Tech in Asia - 9 October 2015 - Singapore-based online remittance platform Toast has raised a S$1.2 million (US$850,000) seed round, the company announced ...
- Remittances to grow 5% in 2016, says Barlcays
- The Standard - 17 January 2016 - MONEY sent home by migrant Filipino workers this year is seen to grow faster by 5 percent, from the projected 4-percent ...