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Diasporas
Diasporas, sometimes referred to as expatriates or transnational communities, play an important role in leveraging migration’s benefits for development. Measuring issues relating to diaspora groups is challenging,...
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According to the latest available estimates, there were 169 million international migrant workers globally in 2019 and they constituted 4.9 per cent of the global labour force (...
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Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative
The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migrat...
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International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users
This is the first-ever manual providing detailed guidance on the compilation of remittances. Data on remittances are important for policymaking, analysis, and research purposes. Using the detailed guidance provide...
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Migration and Development within the South: New evidence from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
This publication aims to recapitulate major research findings carried out in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Timor-Leste, Tri...
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Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual
The Manual provides and explains concepts, definitions, classifications, and conventions for balance of payments and international investment position statistics; it also presents a brief introduction to the vario...
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Remittances to Afghanistan are lifelines: They are needed more than ever in a time of crisis
Remittances from Afghans working abroad and diaspora communities have long been critical for families and the wider economy. Along with so much else in Afghanistan, there is now uncertainty around this v...
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Remittances during COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Resilient despite dire predictions
Migrant remittances are cash or in-kind transfers made by migrants to relatives in countries of origin. In April 2020, experts predicted that the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants would cause g...
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How Blockchain can benefit migration programmes and migrants
Advances in technology often drive changes in how data and information are collected, used and managed. The advent of Blockchain technology, in particular, has impacted various fields; in the field of migration an...
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TALKING MIGRATION DATA: Remittances and the G20
Dilip Ratha, Manager of Migration and Remittances Unit and Head of KNOMAD at the World Bank, talks to GMDAC about the importance of remittances in the G20 countries.
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Nepal: Quarterly Remittance Flows (2019 vs 2020)
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Remittances to and from Afghanistan
Afghan migrants play an important role in contributing financially to their country of origin. In 2020, an estimated USD 788.9 million in remittances were received in Afghanistan. Remittances a...
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Migration & vulnerability
Afghan women, migration, and their future
K. James, N. Alizada and D. Nighoskar | 15 Aug 2022
Migration & development
Remittances during COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Resilient despite dire predictions
Tomas Martin Ernst | 2 Jun 2021
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Africa Migration Report: Challenging the Narrative
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Data show Afghans are increasingly relying on smuggling
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