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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
June 1, 2007
Gupta et al. |
Making Remittances Work for Africa If handled well, migrant transfers in sub-Saharan Africa can reduce poverty and connect small savers to the formal financial sector. |
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. |
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? |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Harnessing Diasporas Africa can tap some of its millions of emigrants to help development efforts. |
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
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? |
IDB America
July 2003
Charo Quesada |
Why emigrate? A new poll produces key insights |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
IDB America
July 2003
Charo Quesada |
Do it with plastic Electronic transactions and bank accounts for emigrants |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Finance & Development
December 2007 |
Letters to the Editor Female power... A moral obligation... Make it a partnership of equals... etc. |
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. |
IDB America
July 2003
Charo Quesada |
Lose a child, gain future security Earnings in Spain buy a house in Ecuador |
