Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances Count

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IDB, 2005 - Business & Economics - 419 pages
Examines the role of money transferred by migrant workers to their home country. Focuses on how the remittances meet the basic needs of family members there, whilst also generating opportunities for local communities and national economies. Considers the impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia.
 

Contents

A Survey of Remittance Senders and Receivers
21
Remittances from the United States and Japan
41
On Remittances and Risk
71
Improving the Access of Recent Latin American
95
Leveraging the Impact of Remittances
133
The Development Impact of Migrant
159
Remittances between Neighboring Countries
219
Remittances to the Andean Region
245
The Experience of
261
Remittances in Europe
297
and North Africa
319
Making Migrant Remittances Count
375
About the Contributors
395
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