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Leveraging Migration for Africa

Remittances, Skills, and Investments

By: Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Caglar Ozden,Sonia Plaza,William Shaw,Abede Shimeles

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Leveraging Migration for Africa

Remittances, Skills, and Investments

By: Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Caglar Ozden,Sonia Plaza,William Shaw,Abede Shimeles

This book seeks to fill knowledge gaps on migration, remittances and diaspora in Africa.

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0821387189

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Migrant Remittance Flows

Findings from a Global Survey of Central Banks

By: Jacqueline Irving,Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

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Migrant Remittance Flows

Findings from a Global Survey of Central Banks

By: Jacqueline Irving,Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

Drawing on the findings from responses to a survey conducted in 2008 09 from 114 central banks worldwide (of which 33 are in Africa), this paper aims to better understand how central banks and other national institutions regulate and collect data and other information on cross-border remittance flows. Findings indicate that, although the vast majority of countries, in both sending and receiving countries, collect data on remittances, and 43 percent of receiving countries estimate informal remittances, there is a need for more frequent and better coordinated data collection, both across national institutions and among different divisions within the same national institution, as well as between countries. Survey results also indicate that many new market entrants transfer activities are unregulated. Countries must take into account new channels and technologies, such as mobile phone service providers, in monitoring remittance flows. It will be important for national regulatory authorities to work closely with mobile telecoms network operators to strike the right regulatory balance, to better understand these new channels associated risks and fully tap their potential for fostering inexpensive, efficient remittance transfer services. The high cost of transfers was cited in the survey as the top factor inhibiting migrants from using formal channels. Many countries, particularly in Africa, have made progress in rendering exclusivity contracts illegal, which helps increase competitiveness and reduce transfer costs. But further policy reforms and initiatives are needed to address the high costs of remittances. The joint African Development Bank-World Bank Africa Migration Project and G-8 Global Remittances Working Group provided partial funding support for this study.

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0821383620

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Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

By: Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Ani Silwal

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Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

By: Dilip Ratha,Sanket Mohapatra,Ani Silwal

The second edition of the factbook presents numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration, skilled emigration, and remittance flows for 210 countries as well as various regional and income groups.

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0821385119

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9780821385111

Remittance Markets in Africa

By: Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

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Remittance Markets in Africa

By: Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries, these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases, they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa, however, remain less developed than other regions. The share of informal or unrecorded remittances is among the highest for Sub-Saharan African countries. Remittance costs tend to be significantly higher in Africa both for sending remittances from outside the region and for within-Africa (South-South) remittance corridors. At the same time, the remittance landscape in Africa is rapidly changing with the introduction of new remittance technologies, in particular mobile money transfers and branchless banking. This book presents findings of surveys of remittance service providers conducted in eight Sub-Saharan African countries and in three key destination countries. It looks at issues relating to costs, competition, innovation and regulation, and discusses policy options for leveraging remittances for development in Africa.

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0821385534

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Migrant Remittance Flows

Findings from a Global Survey of Central Banks

By: Jacqueline Irving,Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

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Findings from a Global Survey of Central Banks

By: Jacqueline Irving,Sanket Mohapatra,Dilip Ratha

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Leveraging Migration for Africa

Leveraging Migration for Africa

Migrant Remittance Flows

Migrant Remittance Flows

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011

Remittance Markets in Africa

Remittance Markets in Africa

Migrant Remittance Flows

Migrant Remittance Flows

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