TY - BOOK AU - Maimbo,Samuel Munzele AU - Ratha,Dilip ED - Conference TI - Remittances : : development impact and future prospects / SN - 0821357948 U1 - 338.90091724 21 PY - 2005/// CY - Washington D. C. : PB - The World Bank, KW - Remesas de emigrantes KW - Países en desarrollo KW - Congresos, conferencias, etc KW - Estudio de casos KW - Remesas KW - Condiciones económicas KW - Política económica N1 - Incluye bibliografías e índice; Part I: Remittance trends and determinants ; Chapter 1: Workers’ remittances : an important and stable source of external development finance / Dilip Ratha ; Chapter 2. Migrant remittances in Africa : a regional perspective / Cerstin Sander and Samuel Munzele Maimbo -- Part II: Maximizing the development impact of remittances ; Chapter 3: The socioeconomic impact of remittances on poverty reduction / Admos O. Chimhowu, Jenifer Piesse and Caroline Pinder ; Chapter 4: Remittances and economic development in India and Pakistan / Roger Ballard ; Chapter 5: Migrant workers' remittances : a source of finance for micro-enterprise development in Bangladesh? / Abul Kalam Azad ; Chapter 6: Migration and development : the Philippine experience / I. F. Bagasao ; Chapter 7. Remittances from Canada to Central America and the Caribbean / Barnabe Ndarishikanye -- Part III: Strengthening the formal financial infrastructure for remittances ; Chapter 8: Exploring the credit union experience with remittances in the Latin American market / David C. Grace ; Chapter 9: Remittances and pyramid investment schemes in Albania / James P. Korovilas ; Chapter 10: International remittances : delivering fair value / Norbert Bielefeld and Antonique Koning -- Part IV: Increasing transparency in the informal financial infrastructure for remittances ; Chapter 11: The regulation and supervision of informal funds transfer systems / Samuel Munzele Maimbo and Nikos Passas ; Chapter 12. Regulation and supervision in a vacuum : the story of the Somali remittance sector / Abdusalam Omer and Gina El Koury ; Chapter 13: A proposed framework to analyze informal funds transfer systems / Raul Hernandez-Coss -- Part V. Migration, development, and remittances ; Chapter 14. The impact of international migration and remittances on poverty / Richard H. Adams, Jr. and John Page ; Chapter 15: Transnationalism and development : trends and opportunities in Latin America / Manuel Orozco ; Chapter 16: Remittances : the new development mantra? / Devesh Kapur ER -