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Remittances and Economic Development in India and Pakistan

Ballard, Roger - 2005

The document contains a chapter of a World Bank report on remittances, its development impact as well as future prospects. It was published in 2005. The articles originated in 2003 during a conference organized by the Department for International Development, IMF, and World Bank, in London.

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A case of capital-rich underdevelopment: The paradoxical consequences of successful transnational entrepreneurship from Mirpur

Ballard, Roger - 2003

created, and the huge flow of remittance capital into a District which otherwise occupies a thoroughly marginalised position …

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Remittances And Economic Development

Ballard, Roger - 2003

The document contains a paper submitted for consideration by the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development in the course of the inquiry into Migration and Development. It is largely a product of the author's longstanding interest in migratory flows from the Punjab region of...

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Migration, Remittances, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction: Reflections on Some South Asian Developments

Ballard, Roger - 2005

This report presents a global account of the historical relationship between migration, industrialization and economic growth, and then goes on to present an empirical examination of the dynamics immigration from Mirpur (Pakistan) and Jullundur (India) to the UK. It closes by considering the...

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Delivering migrant workers' remittances

Ballard, Roger - 2004

As globalization has led to ever higher levels of labour mobility, so the volume of funds remitted to their families by workers employed in countries far distant from their homes has increased by leaps and bounds. The total volume of such transfers currently amounts to over $100 billion per...

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Hawala Transformed: Remittance-driven Transnational Networks in the post-Imperial economic order

Ballard, Roger - 2003

The document contains a comprehensively revised version of a paper presented to a World Bank Conference on Migrant Remittances: development impact, opportunities for the financial sector and future prospects. The meeting took place in 2003.

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Processes of consolidation and settlement in remittance-driven Hawala transactions between the UK and South Asia

Ballard, Roger - 2003

The paper, presented at a World Bank Conference on Migrant Remittances: development impact, opportunities for the financial sector and future prospects in London, 9th - 10th October 2003, examines the Hawala transactions by British labour migrants to South Asia, their region of origin.

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Covariate Shocks and Rural Poverty in Burkina Faso

Sakurai, Takeshi; Savadogo, Kimseyinga - 2009

The civil war in Côte d’Ivoire has caused an increase in household size due to returnees and a decrease in remittance … cropped area and that the decrease of remittance from Côte d’Ivoire increases non-agricultural income: 1 FCFA reduction of … remittance increases 0.78 FCFA of non-agricultural income. In spite of those coping behaviors, this paper demonstrates that the …

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Management of remittances and their role in economic development in Kosovo

Bellaqa, Bashkim; Jusufi, Gezim - 2020

remittance trends over the years, remittance management, in the Kosovo case. The findings of the study should serve as an … important input in improving the management of remittance policies and strategies by the Kosovo government in order to increase …

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Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis

Volcker, Paul A. - 2009

Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...

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