Remittances : development impact and future prospects

By S. Maimbo, Dilip Ratha. 2005

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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.”
The continuing debate about urban bias (2010, background): “Remittances are perhaps the most obvious example: present estimates value remittances at $300 billion, counting offi cial channels only (the scale of informal methods of transfer may be 10 times greater) (Munzele Maimbo and Ratha, 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.”