Delivering migrant workers' remittances

Ballard, Roger

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Abstract

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 annum, the greater part of which flows from economically advanced regions in the West and North to developing countries in the East and South. Delivering those funds swiftly, reliably and cheaply to relatively remote destinations opens up new opportunities for the financial services industry, but also represents a major logistical challenge.

Document type: Article
Date: 2004
Version: Secondary publication
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2009 14:19
Faculties / Institutes: Organisations / Associations / Foundations > Centre for Applied South Asian Studies (CASAS)
DDC-classification: Economics
Controlled Keywords: Migration, Überweisung, Herkunftsland
Uncontrolled Keywords: Geldtransfer, Migration , Remittance , Money Transfer , Country of Origin
Subject (classification): Economics
Series: Themen > CASAS Online Papers: Hawala / IVTS Networks
Volume: 5