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Dilip Ratha
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 99
Citations - 6817
Dilip Ratha is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Remittance & Debt. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 99 publications receiving 6469 citations. Previous affiliations of Dilip Ratha include World Bank Group.
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Workers' Remitt ances: An Important and Stable Source of External Development Finance
TL;DR: The Global Development Finance flagship report of the World Bank as discussed by the authors highlighted that remittances provide a lifeline to many poor countries: they are larger than official development aid, they are counter-cyclical to the recipient country's economic cycle, and they can be leveraged for complementing development efforts.
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Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011
TL;DR: The second edition of the Migration and Remittances Factbook as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive picture of emigration, skilled emigration and immigration flows for 210 countries and 15 country groups, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data.
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South-South Migration and Remittances
Dilip Ratha,William Shaw +1 more
TL;DR: The South-South Migration and Remittances (S-SMS) project as mentioned in this paper reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on bilateral migration stocks, and sets out some working hypotheses on the determinants and socioeconomic implications of SouthSouth migration.
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Remittances : development impact and future prospects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore policy options for enhancing the poverty alleviation impact of remittance money in recipient countries, and addressees concerns about increasing migration and inequality, and look at new technologies that allow remittance service providers to reduce direct transaction costs and open new channels, enhancing convenience for remitters and improving levels of transparency and accountability for regulators and policy makers.
Migration and remittances : recent developments and outlook
Kirsten Schuettler,Hanspeter Wyss,Dilip Ratha,Sonia Plaza,Supriyo De,Ervin Dervisevic,William T. Shaw,Soonhwa Yi,Seyed Reza Yousefi +8 more
TL;DR: The stock of international migrants is estimated at 247 million in 2013, significantly larger than the previous estimate of 232 million, and is expected to surpass 250 million in 2015 as mentioned in this paper, however, the growth of remittance flows to developing countries are expected to moderate sharply to 0.9 percent to $440 billion, led by a 12.7 percent decline in ECA and slowdown in East Asia and the Pacific, Middle-East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.