Remittances.

Remittances

Remittances

Migrants' transfers

Transfers and remittances

Capital flows and remittances

Reducing the costs of remittances

Migration related issues (remittances)

The market and the costs of remittances

Remittances from nationals living abroad

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a Private flows include those identified as workers' remittances and other private remittances .

The Government of El Salvador considers family remittances to be a valuable development tool.

So, too, family members staying home who receive money transfers.

In developing countries, remittances from workers abroad amount to the best insurance around.

According to recent data, remittances have slowed or even fallen slightly.

Published under the title Crossing Borders Gender Remittances and Development , the paper aims to establish the basis for formulating a more adequate response to questions such as how the growing feminization of migration affects remittance flows how remittances can contribute to the achievement of gender equality and how remittances can be mobilized so that sustainable development that includes women can be achieved.

In the near term, at least, cash transfers seem to be the best option.

Remittances providing additional family income constitute further benefits of migration.

Would dispensing aid by making cash transfers directly to the poorest work better?

Domestic resources and diaspora remittances are increasingly funding development.

Remittances providing additional family income constitute further benefits of migration.

An area of particular concern, in that regard, was how to reduce the costs of transferring remittances.

Improved control of international banking systems, including wire funds transfers.

These remittances are vitally important for economic stability in several African countries.

15. One common source of income for small island developing countries is remittances from migrants.

Offshore employment has steadily increased and, with it, remittances to the Territory.

As a consequence, remittances act as an international mechanism of social protection based on private transfers.

Migrants' remittances represented a substantial inflow into the economy of the countries of origin.

In rural Pakistan, remittances are associated with higher school enrollment, especially for girls.

Such migration would also be good for the developing countries, because migrant workers send home remittances.

Workers' remittances have recently emerged as an important source of external finance for development.

Access to credit, more jobs, remittances, the commodity boom, and conditional cash transfers enabled millions to purchase a home, a car, and a better life.

But most families that rely on remittances operate outside of the world s financial system as well.

Below are several recommendations that should help to encourage private capital flows and remittances to African countries

Migration and remittances constituted another area of growing importance on the global agenda.

All these measures must be implemented taking into consideration that remittances constitute private flows of capital.

In the Philippines, about 4 per cent of the gross national product consists of remittances from workers abroad.

The World Bank's latest global economic outlook suggests remittances will fall by 5 to 8 this year.

These transfers enable and encourage those households to invest in their children s health, nutrition, and schooling.

Remittances from migrants do not reach everyone in need and may thus increase inequality.

Remittances have become the second largest source of foreign exchange for developing countries, following foreign direct investment (FDI).

For those countries as a whole, remittances represent the second most important source of capital surpassing ODA flows.

Workers' remittances can have a positive effect on poverty alleviation, sustained growth and sustainable development.

I've told you my remittance hasn't come. Remittance indeed! said Mrs. Hall.