Workers' Remitt ances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance

By D. Ratha. 2005

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Citations in the corpus

• The City and the Bottom Line: Urban Megaprojects and the Privatization of Planning in Southeast Asia (2008, background): “Labor is the country's largest export, and the Philippine government estimates that overseas workers remitted US $8 billion annually by 2002 (Bagasao, 2005; Ratha, 2005).”
• Remittances and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka (2012, background): “As the economy grows, household income levels increase, causing more people to become financially able to migrate, thus a richer household is more likely to be given remittances (Ratha, 2003 ).”
• Turning the tide? Why development will not stop migration. (2007, background): “…creates false hope by ignoring repeated past experience that migration almost inevitably goes along with the settlement of a significant proportion of migrants, and that enforcement of ‘revolving door’ policies tends to be extremely difficult (Castles, 2000: 277-8; Castles, 2006; Ratha, 2003:168).”
• Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues (2011, background): “Furthermore, future flows of remittances can be used as collateral by governments and private sector entities in developing countries to raise financing in international capital market (Ketkar and Ratha 2005, 2009).”
• Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “27 European Investment Bank/Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership 2006; Maimbo and Ratha 2005; Pieke et al. 2005; International Organization for Migration 2005.”
• International Migration as a Tool in Development Policy: A Passing Phase? (2008, background): “Migrant remittances Virtually all published work on migration and development has touched upon remittances, and several major recent assessments are available (OECD 2005; World Bank 2006; Maimbo and Ratha 2005; ?zden and Schiff 2006).”
• Remittances flow and financial development in Bangladesh (2011, background): “Several other studies (Maimbo and Ratha, 2005; Woodruff and Zenteno, 2001; Yang, 2005) suggest a positive relationship between remittances recipient families and entrepreneurship.”