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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 ...