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Leveraging migration for Africa : remittances, skills, and investments

World Bank, Ratha, Dilip, African Development Bank

2011

Overview

A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, 'Leveraging Migration for Africa' is the first comprehensive publication on harnessing migration, remittances, and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere are grappling with difficult choices on how to manage migration.Policy makers can help leverage the contributions of migrants to the development of Africa, reduceremittance costs, improve the efficiency of remittance markets in both origin and destination countries, and address the needs of the origin countries without restricting the emigration of high-skilled professionals. Innovative financing mechanisms such as issuance of diaspora bonds and securitization of future remittance flows can help finance big-ticket projects, such as railways, roads, power plants, and institutions of higher learning that will, step by step, help to transform Africa. This volume contributes to a greater understanding of migration and its potential role in Africa?s development.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank
• Subject: ABUSE / Africa / Africa -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects / African diaspora / African diaspora -- Economic aspects / Africans / AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT / AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION / ASYLUM / BANK ACCOUNTS / BENEFITS OF MIGRATION / BRAIN DRAIN / CENSUSES / CITIZENS / CITIZENSHIP / CIVIL WAR / CLIMATE CHANGE / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT / COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN / COUNTRY OF ORIGIN / DECADES OF WAR / DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES / DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF REMITTANCES / DIASPORA / DIASPORA COMMUNITIES / DISEASES / DISPLACED PEOPLE / DISSEMINATION / DIVORCE / Economic aspects / Economic development / Economic development -- Africa / ECONOMIC INTEGRATION / ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES / EDUCATED MIGRANTS / ELDERLY / EMIGRANT REMITTANCES / Emigrant remittances -- Africa / EMIGRANTS / EMIGRATION / Emigration and immigration / ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS / ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION / EXPATRIATE NATIONALS / EXPATRIATES / FAMILY MEMBERS / FAMILY REUNIFICATION / FAMILY SIZE / FAMILY STRUCTURES / FAMILY TIES / FARMERS / FERTILITY / FERTILITY PATTERNS / FERTILITY PREFERENCES / FERTILITY RATES / Financial crisis / FOOD SECURITY / FOOD SHORTAGES / FORCED MIGRATION / FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT / FOREIGNERS / GENDER DIFFERENCES / GENDER ROLES / GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT / GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE / GOVERNMENT AGENCIES / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / HIV / HIV INFECTION / HIV INFECTIONS / HOME COUNTRIES / HOME VILLAGES / HOST COUNTRIES / HOUSEHOLD INCOME / HOUSEHOLD SIZE / HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS / HOUSING / HUMAN CAPITAL / HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS / HUMAN RIGHTS / HUMAN WELFARE / HUSBANDS / ILLEGAL ALIENS / IMMIGRANT / IMMIGRANTS / IMMIGRATION / IMMIGRATION POLICIES / IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS / IMPACT OF MIGRATION / IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT / INFECTION RATES / INFLUX OF REFUGEES / INFORMAL REMITTANCE / INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS / INITIATIVES ON REMITTANCES / INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK / INTERNAL MIGRANTS / INTERNAL MIGRATION / INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS / INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY / INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION / INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS / INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL REFUGEES / INTRAREGIONAL MIGRATION / Investments, Foreign / Investments, Foreign -- Africa / JOB OPPORTUNITIES / LABOR FORCE / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKETS / LABOR MIGRATION / LAND OWNERSHIP / LEGAL STATUS / LEVEL OF EDUCATION / LIMITED RESOURCES / LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES / LOCAL AUTHORITIES / LOCAL COMMUNITIES / LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES / MACROECONOMIC LEVEL / Macroeconomics / MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS / Microeconomics / MIGRANT / MIGRANT LABORERS / MIGRANTS / MIGRATION / MIGRATION DATA / MIGRATION FLOWS / MIGRATION PATTERNS / MIGRATION POLICIES / MIGRATION POLICY / MIGRATION RATES / MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE / MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE / MUTUAL RESPECT / NATIONAL BORDERS / NATURAL DISASTERS / NUMBER OF MIGRANTS / NUMBER OF PEOPLE / NUMBER OF REFUGEES / NUMBER OF WOMEN / NURSES / OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE / PAYMENT SERVICES / PERMANENT SETTLEMENT / PHYSICAL ABUSE / PLACE OF RESIDENCE / POLICY DECISIONS / POLICY DEVELOPMENT / POLICY MAKERS / POLICY RESEARCH / POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER / POPULATION GROWTH / POST OFFICES / POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION / POTENTIAL MIGRANTS / PRIMARY SCHOOL / PRIMARY SCHOOLING / PROGRESS / PROVISION OF INFORMATION / PUBLIC SERVICES / RACISM / RATE OF MIGRATION / REFUGEE / REGISTRATION SYSTEMS / REMITTANCE / REMITTANCE CHANNELS / REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS / REMITTANCES / RESETTLEMENT / RESOURCE FLOWS / RETURN MIGRATION / RETURNEES / RIGHT OF WOMEN / RURAL AREAS / SAFETY NET / SAFETY NETS / SECONDARY SCHOOL / SECONDARY SCHOOLING / SERVICE PROVIDER / SERVICE PROVIDERS / SERVICE PROVISION / SEX / SKILLED MIGRANTS / SKILLED MIGRATION / SKILLED WORKERS / SMALL COUNTRIES / SOCIAL COSTS / SOCIAL ISSUES / SOCIAL NETWORKS / SOCIAL SECURITY / TECHNICAL RESOURCES / TEMPORARY MIGRATION / TERTIARY EDUCATION / TOLERANCE / TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES / TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE / TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY / TRANSPORTATION / TUBERCULOSIS / UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS / UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS / UNDOCUMENTED MIGRATION / UNFPA / UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES / UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION / UNIVERSITY EDUCATION / URBAN AREAS / USE OF REMITTANCES / VICTIMS / VISAS / VULNERABILITY / WAR / WORKFORCE / WORKING CONDITIONS / WORKING-AGE POPULATION / XENOPHOBIA / YOUNG ADULTS
• ISBN: 9780821382578, 0821382578, 0821387189, 9780821387184