Remittance markets in Africa / / Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha, editors
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| Titolo: |
Remittance markets in Africa / / Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha, editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxi, 352 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm |
| Disciplina: | 332.450869120967 |
| Soggetto topico: | Emigrant remittances - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
| Economic development - Finance - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
| Financial services industry - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
| Africans - Economic aspects - Europe, Western | |
| Immigrants - Economic aspects - Europe, Western | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa, Sub-Saharan Emigration and immigration Economic aspects |
| Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions | |
| Altri autori: |
MohapatraSanket <1975->
RathaDilip
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Remittance markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : an overview / Sanket Mohapatra and Dilip Ratha. Remittance markets in remittance-receiving countries. Burkina Faso / Yiriyibin Bambio -- Cape Verde / Georgiana Pop -- Ethiopia / Alemayehu Geda and Jacqueline Irving -- Ghana / Peter Quartey -- Kenya / Rose Ngugi -- Nigeria / Chukwuma Agu -- Senegal / Fatou Cisse -- Uganda / Rose Ngugi. Remittance markets in remittance-source countries. France / Frederic Ponsot -- United Kingdom / Leon Isaacs. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Remittances sent by African migrants have become an important source of external finance for countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. In many African countries, these flows are larger than foreign direct investment and portfolio debt and equity flows. In some cases, they are similar in size to official aid from multilateral and bilateral donors. Remittance markets in Africa, however, remain less developed than other regions. The share of informal or unrecorded remittances is among the highest for Sub-Saharan African countries. Remittance costs tend to be significantly higher in Africa both |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Remittance markets in Africa |
| ISBN: | 1-283-10006-1 |
| 9786613100061 | |
| 0-8213-8553-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814043003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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