Authors:Dilip Ratha, Zhimei Xu,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: factbook, remittances, migration
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-02-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0821374133
ISBN-13: 9780821374139

The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008 attempts to present 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 194 countries, and 13 regional and income groups. Some interesting facts from the Factbook: Nearly 200 million people or 3 percent of the world population live outside their countries of birth. Current migration flows, relative to population, are weaker than those of the last decades of the n

Author: Rodolfo O. de la Garza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: community, development, remittances, hispanic, money, home, sending
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-08
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0742518868
ISBN-13: 9780742518865

The flow of money southward from the United States has evolved from a stream flowing from families through informal networks to a major river with new tributaries fed by transnational migrant organizations, channeled through an increasingly formal marketplace, and attracting the involvement of home country governments. This volume tracks the evolution of the flow of money _home,_ offering new data to enhance the picture and understanding of this important economic phenomenon.

Author: Caglar Ozden; Maurice Schiff
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: bank, trade, development, series, world, drain, migration, remittances, brain, international
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821363727
ISBN-13: 9780821363720

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. Using original research, this title examines the determinants of migration, the impact of remittances and migration on poverty, welfare, and investment decisions, and the consequences of brain drain, brain gain, and brain waste.

Author: Organisation For Economic Co-operation A
Publisher: OECD
Keywords: development, dimension, remittances, migration
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2005-11
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 9264013881
ISBN-13: 9789264013889

Authors:Hela Cheikhrouhou, Rodrigo Jarque, Raul Hernandez-
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: world, bank, working, paper, intermediation, remittances, remittance, corridor, understanding, drivers, guatemala
Number of Pages: 71
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 082136782X
ISBN-13: 9780821367827

Authors:Pablo Fajnzylber,  Humberto J. Lopez,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: development, latin, forum, american, america, remittances, lessons
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-02-08
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821368702
ISBN-13: 9780821368701

Whereas workers remittances have become a major source of financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, there is still limited evidence on the development impact of those flows across the main recipient countries in the region. To help fill this gap, Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America combines the analysis of cross-country panel data with that of household surveys for as many as 11 countries. Among other issues, this book investigates the profile of Latin American migrants and remittances recipients, and analyzes the impact of those flows on growth, poverty, inequality, s