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11:58. </div> <div class="content"><p>In collaboration with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://www.afdb.org/">African Development Bank</a>, the World Bank is undertaking a comprehensive study of migration and remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa and destination countries outside Africa. The World Bank Household Survey of Migrants is part of this effort, and will be conducted in 10 countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Ivory Coast, and Uganda). </p> <p>Findings from these surveys will provide a better understanding of the characteristics of migrants in sending and receiving countries and thereby help inform national policy-makers about trends in migration and remittances, determinants and consequences, and development impacts.</p> <p>The World Bank is inviting firms to submit expressions of interest to undertake a household survey focusing on internal and international migration in at least one of the above 10 Sub-Saharan countries.  <strong>The deadline for expressions of interest is November 7, 2008</strong>, and the high quality work should be completed by June 2009. </p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a 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Migration is an exception rather than the rule. Only 200 million or 3% of world population are international migrants; 97% are not. Most people like to be rooted where they are born, unless they are uprooted by economic factors.</p> <p>2. Over 90% of international migrants are economic migrants who have left home to work for someone abroad. The implication is that <strong>migration generates economic gains for the migrants, their employers in destination countries, and their families back home.</strong> Yet, considering that most people stay at home, migration is not a substitute for development and job creation at home.</p> <p>3. Contrary to popular perception, migrants from developing countries do not always move to rich countries. About half of them reside in other poor developing countries. In other words, migration is not always "south-north".  <strong>Many developing countries have to deal with the complexities associated with not only emigration of their people, but immigration of people from other countries.</strong></p> </div> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <span class="readmore-fill"></span> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/dilip" title="Read Dilip's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Dilip's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_comments"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/why-the-development-agenda-must-embrace-migration#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting." class="comment_comments">1 comment</a></li> <li class="service_links_delicious"><a 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countries.  The World Bank estimates that even a one meter rise would turn at least 56 million people in the developing world into environmental refugees. </p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/climate-change-and-the-migration-fallout" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="node_read_more">READ MORE >></a></div> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/sonia" title="Read Sonia's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Sonia's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_comments"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/climate-change-and-the-migration-fallout#comments" title="Jump to the first comment of this posting." class="comment_comments">3 comments</a></li> <li class="node_read_more"></li> <li 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08/01/2008 - 10:00. </div> <div class="content"><p>The July/August issue of Foreign Policy has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4339">a short feature</a> highlighting the "dark side" of remittances. It cites an IMF study which argues:</p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px"> <p>"High levels of remittances often lead to greater corruption and irresponsible economic policies; and officials in remittance-rich countries are often let off the hook for failing to provide basic services, freeing them to divert resources for their own purposes. This gives citizens less of an incentive to demand reforms."</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/remittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="node_read_more">READ MORE >></a></div> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/dilip" title="Read Dilip's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Dilip's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/comment/reply/78#comment-form" title="Add a new comment to this page." class="comment_add">Add new comment</a></li> <li class="node_read_more"></li> <li class="service_links_delicious"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges&title=Remittances+and+natural+resources%3A+apples+and+oranges" title="Bookmark this post on del.icio.us." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_delicious"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/delicious.png" alt="Delicious"/></a></li> <li class="service_links_digg"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges&title=Remittances+and+natural+resources%3A+apples+and+oranges" title="Digg this post on digg.com." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_digg"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/digg.png" alt="Digg"/></a></li> <li class="service_links_reddit"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://reddit.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges&title=Remittances+and+natural+resources%3A+apples+and+oranges" title="Submit this post on reddit.com." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_reddit"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/reddit.png" alt="Reddit"/></a></li> <li class="service_links_facebook"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges&t=Remittances+and+natural+resources%3A+apples+and+oranges" title="Share on Facebook." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_facebook"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/facebook.png" alt="Facebook"/></a></li> <li class="service_links_google"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges&title=Remittances+and+natural+resources%3A+apples+and+oranges" title="Bookmark this post on Google." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_google"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/google.png" alt="Google"/></a></li> <li class="last service_links_technorati"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206202659/http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeoplemove.worldbank.org%2Fen%2Fcontent%2Fremittances-and-natural-resources-apples-and-oranges" title="Search Technorati for links to this post." rel="nofollow" class="service_links_technorati"><img src="/web/20090206202659im_/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/sites/all/modules/service_links/technorati.png" alt="Technorati"/></a></li> </ul></div> </div> <div class="taxonomy"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first taxonomy_term_119"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/category/topics/remittance" rel="tag" title="" class="taxonomy_term_119">Remittance</a></li> <li class="last taxonomy_term_123"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/category/themes/poverty" rel="tag" title="" class="taxonomy_term_123 active">Poverty</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> <div class="node"> <h2 class="title"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/remittances-reduce-poverty">Remittances reduce poverty</a></h2> <div class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/users/dilip" title="View user profile.">Dilip</a> on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 10:25. </div> <div class="content"><p>I'm originally from a small village in India. There is no doubt that many of the people I knew growing up were able to survive because of the money their relatives sent back home to purchase the most basic staples. In development jargon, this money is known as remittances, but from my point of view, this money was a lifeline.</p> <p>Remittances directly augment the income of those households that receive them. In addition to providing resources for the poor, they affect poverty and welfare through a whole host of indirect multiplier effects and also macroeconomic effects. The beauty of these flows is that they don't suffer from the governance problems that may be associated with official aid (i.e. the money goes from one wallet to another, sans most of the red tape in between).</p> <p>On a larger scale, analysis across countries worldwide shows the significant poverty reduction effects of remittances: A 10 percent increase in per capita official remittances may lead to a 3.5 percent decline in the share of poor people.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/remittances-reduce-poverty" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="node_read_more">READ MORE >></a></div> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206202659/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/dilip" title="Read Dilip's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Dilip's blog</a></li> <li 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