Beyond Small Change: Making Migrant Remittances CountExamines 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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