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Remittances :

Remittances : development impact and future prospects / editors, Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Dilip Ratha. - Washington, DC : World Bank, c2005. - xx, 378 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Proceedings of a 2003 conference organized by the Department for International Development, IMF, and World Bank.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Remittances : an overview / Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Dilip Ratha --
Workers' remittances : an important and stable source of external development finance / Dilip Ratha --
Migrant remittances in Africa : a regional perspective / Cerstin Sander, Samuel Munzele Maimbo --
The socioeconomic impact of remittances on poverty reduction / Admos O. Chimhowu, Jenifer Piesse, Caroline Pinder --
Remittances and economic development in India and Pakistan / Roger Ballard --
Migrant workers' remittances : a source of finance for micro-enterprise development in Bangladesh? / Abul Kalam Azad --
Migration and development : the Philippine experience / I.F. Bagasao --
Remittances from Canada to Central America and the Caribbean / Barnabe Ndarishikanye --Exploring the credit union experience with remittances in the Latin American market / David C. Grace --
Remittances and pyramid investment schemes in Albania / James P. Korovilas --
International remittances : delivering fair value / Norbert Bielefeld, Antonique Koning --
The regulation and supervision of informal funds transfer systems / Samuel Munzele Maimbo, Nikos Passas --
Regulation and supervision in a vacuum : the story of the Somali remittance sector / Abdusalam Omer, Gina El Koury --
A proposed framework to analyze informal funds transfer systems / Raul Hernandez-Coss --
The impact of international migration and remittances on poverty / Richard H. Adams, Jr., John Page --
Transnationalism and development : trends and opportunities in Latin America / Manuel Orozco --
Remittances : the new development mantra? / Devesh Kapur. TOC



0821357948 (pbk.) 9780821357941

2005045771


Emigrant remittances--Developing countries--Congresses.
Transfer payments--Developing countries--Congresses.
Finance--Government policy--Developing countries.


Developing countries--Economic conditions--Congresses.
Developing countries--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--Congresses.

HG3877 / .R46 2005

338.90091724 / REM 2005