Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Dilip Ratha	Remittances: A Lifeline for Development Governments have often offered incentives to increase remittance flows and to channel them to productive uses. But such policies are more problematic than efforts to expand access to financial services or reduce transaction costs.
Finance & Development December 2009 Ratha et al.	Remittances in Development Remittances, funds repatriated by migrant workers to family and friends back home, provide the most tangible link between migration and development.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005	Sending Money Home: Trends in Migrant Remittances Over the past fifteen years, international migrant remittances have become increasingly prominent -- with $167 billion flowing to developing countries. Survey data show that remittances have reduced the poverty headcount ratio significantly in several low-income countries.
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Christensen et al.	Bankable Assets Africa faces many obstacles in developing financial systems. New markets and institutions need to be able to flourish.
IDB America October 2001 Peter Bate	A river of gold The money that migrants send home buoys families and bolsters national economies. Can it do more?
IDB America March 2004 Charo Quesada	Unlocking the hidden potential of remittances How to multiply the benefits of the ever-increasing flow of money sent by immigrants to relatives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finance & Development September 2011	Harnessing Diasporas Africa can tap some of its millions of emigrants to help development efforts.
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 McDonald et al.	Enticing Investors To make a serious dent in poverty, Africa must attract more foreign capital. Portfolio investment has the potential to raise market efficiency and deepen financial intermediation while safeguarding financial sector soundness.
Finance & Development June 2011	Lowering the Cost of Sending Money Home Reducing transaction costs can put more money in the pockets of migrants and their families.
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Bio-Tchane & Christensen	Right Time for Africa Africa needs to build on its recent success to catch up. A forward-looking reform agenda should aim to maintain macroeconomic stability, improve the business climate, promote trade, and, most important, strengthen fiscal institutions.
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Gulde & Pattillo	Adding Depth Africa can achieve even higher economic growth through financial sector reform.
IDB America November 2002 Paul Constance	The high cost of solidarity Why many Latin American immigrants are paying too much to send money back home, and what can be done about it
Fast Company April 2012 Irin Carmon	Tigo Helps Remittances Go Mobile In countries like Guatemala, remittances from migrant workers in the U.S. are critical to the economy. Tigo, an international telecom, has a unique plan to use mobile banking to simplify a trying process.
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Ulrich Jacoby	Getting Together China is itself a developing country, but it is also fast becoming a major player in the development of sub-Saharan Africa.
IDB America July 2003 Charo Quesada	Do it with plastic Electronic transactions and bank accounts for emigrants
Scientific American March 26, 2006 George Musser	The Check Is in the Mail Remittances have become a huge factor in the global economy: But does the money immigrants send home do any good?
Bank Systems & Technology August 22, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	Remittances Offer Promise of New Revenue and New Markets to Banks About 40 percent of the global funds transmitted annually by migrant workers to their home countries emanate from the U.S., yet banks here so far process only about 3 percent of world remittances.
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Michael Klein	Taking Care of Business Creating a better business environment is crucial for bolstering growth in Africa.
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Harry G. Broadman	Connecting Africa and Asia Improved Asian market access can boost Africa's exports, but Africa needs domestic reforms to fully capture the economic benefits
Finance & Development September 2008 Gupta & Tareq	Mobilizing Revenue Strengthening domestic revenue bases is key to creating fiscal space for Africa's developmental needs
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Pattillo, Gupta & Carey	Growing Pains With Africa's growth finally picking up, the challenge is to accelerate and sustain the pace to reduce poverty.
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 S. Ibi Ajayi	What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization
U.S. Banker July 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Waiting for the Call Cellphone banking is emerging as an important link that could bring the most basic financial services to the globe's billions of unbanked cellphone users.
Bank Systems & Technology October 22, 2007 Nancy Feig	Cross-Border Payments: What Role Do Banks Play in Remittances? At $250 billion, the market for cross-border, consumer-to-consumer remittance payments already is huge. But with the World Bank estimate of 30% year-over-year growth, the market is one banks no longer can ignore.
Bank Systems & Technology August 17, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	ICICI Bank Captures Top Share of Top Remittance Market by Catering to Migrant Workers' Diverse Requirements India's second-largest bank, ICICI, handles more than one-fifth of the money coming into India from its migrant workers all over the globe.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 David Fairlamb	Can Western Union Keep On Delivering? Wiring money overseas has been a hugely profitable business. But now, rivals are elbowing in, driving the fees down.
Finance & Development September 1, 2006 Jeffrey G. Williamson	Global Migration Two centuries of mass migration offers insights into the future economic impact of the global movements of people.
IDB America May 2004	MIF Helps Microlenders to Enter Remittances Market The new program will help five Latin American institutions analyze their potential for handling remittances, draft business plans to enter those markets, acquire the necessary technological infrastructure and develop new financial products and services for their entrepreneurial clients.
IDB America July 2004 Enrique V. Iglesias	Intel Was Once a Start-up Latin America's microentrepreneurs deserve more attention---and assistance. These kinds of investments can yield big payoffs for society.
Bank Technology News September 2002 Karen Krebsbach	Following The Money Banks are gunning for a larger share of the $9.2 billion wired home annually by Mexican nationals in the U.S. But the Mexican government, with its own remittance plan, could be the dark horse in this race.
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Suhas Ketkar & Dilip Ratha	Securitization of Future Flow Receivables: A Useful Tool for Developing Countries During financial crises, developing countries cannot obtain low-cost, long-term loans. Securitization of future flow receivables can help investment-grade public and private sector entities in these countries raise funds in international capital markets...
Bank Systems & Technology May 8, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	For Money Transfers, Going Solo Not the Best Route for Banks A new study says banks are better off teaming up with existing money transmitters to succeed in remittance business.
IDB America July 2003 Charo Quesada	Why emigrate? A new poll produces key insights
Finance & Development December 2009 Barbara Stocking	Straight Talk: The Poor Should Not Pay the Price for the Crisis The economic crisis forces us to confront chronic vulnerability and damaging inequality. How can the financial sector help shoulder the cost?
Finance & Development June 2006	Book Reviews Deciding how to divide the economic pie: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy... Brain drain or brain gain?: Give Us Your Best and Brightest... Paying for old age: Rethinking Pension Reform... etc.
Finance & Development June 2007	Letters to the Editor The merits of private equity... Building a solid foundation... Deciding how to spend the oil windfall... Hunger is the real problem... etc.
Bank Technology News August 2008 Krebsbach & Fest	Big Calling Mobile phones have emerged as a critical way to bring financial services to the globe's legions of unbanked -- a billion of whom carry cellphones.
Bank Technology News December 2008 Rebecca Sausner	ATMs: Taking on Western Union Startup company Privier Inc. is developing a system that allows bank customers to send cash around the globe for pick up at any participating ATM, even without an ATM card.
Finance & Development December 2007	Letters to the Editor Female power... A moral obligation... Make it a partnership of equals... etc.
Bank Technology News June 2004 Karen Krebsbach	EU Growth Beckons Tech Firms Credit card, remittance companies line up in Europe.
IDB America July 2003 Charo Quesada	Lose a child, gain future security Earnings in Spain buy a house in Ecuador
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005	El Salvador's CAFTA Imperative President Saca believes a free-trade agreement with the U.S. is essential to his country's and the region's growth and stability.
Bank Technology News February 2004 Michael Sisk	The Rush To Fill c2it's Void While the closing of Citigroup's long-struggling c2it online money transfer service in November caught a lot of headlines, it was but a single move on the global on-line payments chess board. It's a game that's heating up fast, particularly on the international front.
Finance & Development September 2009	Faces of the Crisis - One Crisis, Six Lives The stories of six people, told here in their own voices, illustrate better than any economic analysis just how integrated the world is today, and how intertwined our fates have become as a consequence.
On Wall Street October 1, 2010 Milton Ezrati	Despite Violence, Mexico's Economy Begins to Improve Despite terrible problems, once the U.S. recovery begins to create jobs, remittances from Mexican nationals working north of the border will begin to add marginal momentum to Mexico's economic growth and, hence, to its market prospects.
Wired June 2002 David Diamond	One Nation, Overseas Need (hired) help? Try the Philippines, the forerunner of tomorrow's distributed economy, supplying nurses, teachers, techies, and sailors to the global village...
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Wu, Kaul, & Sankar	The Quiet Revolution How India is achieving universal elementary education.
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Mahmoud Mohieldin	Point of View: Neighborly Investments Gulf oil producers are investing petrodollars in other Middle East countries -- a trend that should continue even as oil prices fall.
IDB America October 2001 Peter Bate	Can remittances help to fuel development? The manager of the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund explains how money sent home by immigrants could be leveraged to benefit whole communities...