Remittances: The perpetual migration machine

World Policy Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 37-46

  Wucker, Michele ^a  

^a World Policy Institute   (United States)

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EID: 4444372389     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2004-3008     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. The World Bank estimates that remittances in 2003 amounted to $93 billion. The Nilson Report, which tracks the global payments industry, puts the 2003 figure at $145 billion.
2. See Dilip Ratha, "Workers' Remittances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance," in Global Development Finance 2003 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2004); see also Devesh Kapur and John McHale, "Migration's New Payoff," Foreign Policy, November/December 2003.
3. See Dilip Ratha, "Workers' Remittances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance," in Global Development Finance 2003 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2004); see also Devesh Kapur and John McHale, "Migration's New Payoff," Foreign Policy, November/December 2003.
4. Leonides Buencamino and Sergei Gorbunov, "Informal Money Transfer Systems: Opportunities and Challenges for Development Finance," United Nations DESA Discussion Paper No. 26, ST/ESA/2002/DP/26, November 2002.
5. Gwenn Bézard, "Global Money Transfers: Exploring the Remittance Gold Mine," Celent Communications, Boston, August 2002.
6. Robert Suro, "Remittance Senders arid Receivers: Tracking the Transnational Channels" (Washington, D.C., Multilateral Investment Fund/Pew Hispanic Center, November 24, 2003).
7. Bendixen & Associates, "Survey of Remittance Senders: U.S. to Latin America" (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank/Multilateral Investment Fund, November/December 2001).
8. For an account of the Somali case, see Cindy Horst and Nick van Hear, "Counting the Cost: Refugees, Remittances and the 'War Against Terrorism,'" Forced Migration Review, no. 14 (July 2002).
9. Suro, "Remittance Senders and Receivers."
10. Philip L. Martin, Trade and Migration: NAFTA and Agriculture (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1993);
11. see also Philip L. Martin and Thomas Straubhaar, "Best Practices to Reduce Migration Pressures," International Migration, vol. 40, no. 3 (2002), pp. 5-23.
12. B. Lindsay Lowell, "Some Developmental Effects of the International Migration of Highly Skilled Persons," International Migration Paper 46 (Geneva: International Labor Organization, 2002).
13. Richard H. Adams, Jr., "International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain: A Study of 24 Labor-Exporting Countries," Working Paper No. 3069 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, June, 2003).
14. Buencamino and Gorbunov, "Informal Money Transfer Systems," p. 7.
15. Tyche Hendricks, "Bush Guestworker Plan Recalls Bracero Program," San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2004.
16. Felipe Ossa, "Colombian E-Cash Boom," LatAm Securitization Report, January 26, 2004.
17. All in the Family: Latin America's Most Important International Financial Flow, Report of the Inter-American Dialogue Task Force on Remittances (Washington, D.C., January 2004).
18. Bézard, "Global Money Transfers."
19. All in the Family, Report of the Inter-American Dialogue Task Force on Remittances.
20. See www.cuna.org/gov_affairs/congress_briefing.html.
21. Inter-American Development Bank/Multilateral Investment Fund, "Sending Money Home: Remittance to Latin America and the Caribbean" (Washington, D.C., January 26, 2004).
22. J. Edward Taylor, "Do Government Programs 'Crowd In' Remittances?" Inter-American Dialogue and Tomás Rivera Policy Institute working paper, January 2000.
23. LatAm Securitization Report, January 12, 2004.
24. Alfredo Corchado, "Public-Private Efforts Inject Life across the Border," Dallas Morning News, September 29, 2003.
25. Manuel Orozco, "The Salvadoran Diaspora: Remittances, Transnationalism and Government Responses," working paper, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, 2004.
26. AnnaLee Saxenian. "Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley" (San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2002).
27. United Nations Development Program, "Immigration and Migrant Labor: Some Lessons from Global Experience," October 2002.
28. Shivani Puri and Tineke Ritzema, "Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-Finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues," International Labor Organization Working Paper 21, Geneva, 1999.