Transfers and remittances

Intangible transfers (point 19 of the matrix)

Harnessing the Remittance Boom

Migration related issues (remittances)

Policies are needed to support technology transfer that facilitates remittances or investments by making such transfers less costly.

Remittances by emigrants offer one of the richest.

Remittance income formed a big part of Yemen s budget.

A high priority should be given to increasing pro poor fiscal transfers.

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

The remittance flow continues to be buoyant.

Transfer to the biennium support budget

The hawaladar in Somalia receives the money in hard currency, mostly United States dollars, and makes the relevant transfer to the corresponding foreign hawaladar office.

Indeed, some countries are dependent on this income flow.

The country survives on remittances and international economic aid.

alternative remittance systems are difficult to licence or to supervise.

Mexico pioneered the idea of Conditional Cash Transfers (the OPORTUNIDADES program originally PROGRESA which was launched in 1998). CCT programs have subsequently been emulated by many countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

Anti terrorism laws are a problem here, because the demand for more effective control mechanisms on international financial transfers places an extra burden on remittance operators.

But transfers from the African diaspora stand out as the most significant contributing factor.

17. Conditional cash transfers to increase the number of children receiving education

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

In some larger economies, remittances became a significant source of foreign exchange.

Figure 2 shows the breakdown between new (net) transfers and debt forgiveness.

In turn, remittances can spur this development.

To address this situation, the Institute developed a research framework for a gender analysis of the sending and receipt of remittances as well as their impact on household and gender relations.

The decline in remittances, however, cuts both ways.

In general, remittances tend to benefit poor segments of the population in recipient countries.

In a number of small developing countries, remittances contribute more than one third of GDP, and in a number of larger countries, annual receipts exceed 50 billion.

Recognizing that remittance flows constitute sources of private capital and that remittances have increased over time, complement domestic savings and are instrumental in improving the well being of recipients,

Remittances have long spurred inflation in many parts of Africa.

Mexico pioneered the idea of Conditional Cash Transfers (the OPORTUNIDADES program originally PROGRESA which was launched in 1998).

This is the context of the ministerial conference of the least developed countries on remittances from migrant workers.

Israel is also considering a suspension of transfers of Palestinian tax and customs revenues, and has threatened to annex parts of the West Bank.

Achieving equity through fiscal transfers can ensure a level playing field.

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

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

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Financial, technical and technological transfers still lag far behind.

Among the North African countries, Egypt and Morocco dominate the reported receipts.

Clearly, private remittances to African countries are substantial.

Conditional cash transfers are another option for Latin American policy makers to consider.

Migration, an option financed by remittances from relatives in the United States, was not made any more flexible, either.

Such steps will make far reaching transfers of sovereignty unavoidable.

In some States, those remittances constitute 65 per cent of all development assistance.

Latin America and the Caribbean region received the largest flows of remittances in nominal terms in 2004, but for the region as a whole, they represent a higher proportion of gross domestic product in the Middle East and North Africa.

On the other hand, total transfers have a much bigger equalizing effect on incomes.