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Extensive data and information on migration and remittances, by

countires, regions and income groups.

The World Bank Migration and Remmitances Unit, Migration and Development http://siteresources.worldbank.org/TOPICS/Resources/21497
Brief No. 17.
0-1288877981391/MigrationandDevelopmentBrief17.pdf
World Bank

Current data, as well as forecasts, on select remittance statistics.

Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011, 2nd ed. World Bank.

Singer, Audrey. "Immigrant Workers in the U.S. Labor Force." Brookings

Partnership for a New American Economy. March 15, 2012.

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2012/031
5_immigrant_workers_singer/0315_immigrant_workers_sing
er.pdf
Brookings Institution

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTDECPROSPECTS/R
The World Bank Migration and Remmitances Unit, Migration and Development esources/4768821157133580628/MigrationandDevelopmentBrief16.pdf
World Bank
Brief No. 16. May 23, 2011.

"Focus: Remittances" The Economist Online. December 9, 2011.

http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WD
SP/IB/2010/04/07/000333037_20100407030431/Rendered/P
DF/538840PUB0Migr101Official0Use0Only1.pdf
World Bank
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2011/12/focu
s
The Economist

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CFPB Report on Issues Facing Users of International Money Transfers. July 12,
2011.

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/pressrelease/consumerfinancial-protection-bureau-releases-report-on-issues-facing- Consumer Financial

users-of-international-money-transfers/
Protection Bureau

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"El Salvador Exclusive: Revolution Down, Remittances Up." International

Association of Money Transfer Networks
"Counting the cash" The Economist Online. October 4, 2007.
Manuel Orozco, The Remittance Marketplace: Prices, Policy and Financial
Institutions, June 7, 2004.

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Irving, Jacqueline. Et al. Migrant Remittance Flows: Findings from a Global
Survey of Central Banks . World Bank Working Paper No. 194. April, 2010.
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http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLAC/Resources/Factb
ook2011-Ebook.pdf
World Bank

Orozco, Manuel. "International Flows of Remittances: Cost, competition and

financial access in Latin America and the Caribbean - toward an industry
scorecard." May 12, 2006.
International Transactions in Remittances: Guide for Compilers and Users.
International Monetary Fund, 2009.

http://www.iamtn.org/content/el-salvador-exclusiverevolution-down-remittances
http://www.economist.com/node/9912618

International Association of
Money Transfer Networks
The Economist

http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/28.pdf

Pew Hispanic Center

http://www.iadb.org/news/docs/internationalflows.pdf

Inter-American Dialogue

http://www.imf.org/external/np/sta/bop/remitt.htm

IMF

Remittance Prices Worldwide: An Analysis of Trends in the Average Total Cost

of Migrant Remittance Services. World Bank Payment Systems and Development
Group. No. 3, November 2011.
International Migrant Remittances and their Role in Development. OECD
International Migration Outlook, 2006.

http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/~/media/FPDKM/Rem
ittances/Documents/RemittancePriceWorldwide-AnalysisDec2011.pdf
World Bank

Suro, Robert. Et. al. "Billions in Motion: Latino Immigrants, Remittances and
Banking." The Pew Hispanic Center and The Multilateral Investment Fund.
Remittance Recipients in Central America. Inter-American Development Bank,
September 2003.

http://www.revistainterforum.com/english/pdf_en/REMITTA
NCES.pdf
Pew Hispanic Center
http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=3
5081410
IADB

Lacroix, Thomas. "Migration and Development Research Scoping Study."

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, November 2008.
Remittances: Sending Money Home. International Fund for Agricultural
Development, October 2009.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/46/38840502.pdf

Extensive data and analysis based on a survey of central banks and

other national institutuions in 176 countries. Survey was conducted
between March and May of 2008.

The scorecard is a quantitative framework used to rate more than 50

companies operating in fourteen coutries in the region on a variety of
criteria, focusing on remittance transfer service as well as country
climates.

OECD

Governance and Social

Development Resource
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/pdf/ScopingStudyMigration.pdf Centre
http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/remittances/e.pdf

IFAD

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http://files.consumerfinance.gov/a/assets/documents/remittan
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. Final Rule: Electronic Fund Transfers ce/Remittances%20Final%20Rule%20%20January%2020%202012.pdf
CFPB
(Regulation E), 12 CFR part 1005.

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International Fund for Agricultural Development Remittance Maps. Latin

America and the Caribbean: The Cost of Sending Remittances to this Region is
Among the Lowest in the World.

http://www.ifad.org/remittances/maps/latin.htm

IFAD

Facts and figures by country and region.

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Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011. Multilateral Investment http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getDocument.aspx?DOCNU
Fund, 2011.
M=36723460

IADB

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Remittance Senders and Receivers: Tracking the transactional

channels.Multilateral Investment Fund and the Pew Hispanic Center, November
2003

http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/23.pdf

Pew Hispanic Center

PR Newswire. "Mexicans and Central Americans Leading in the use of Mobile

Phones for Sending Money." November 15, 2011.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mexicans-andcentral-americans-leading-in-the-use-of-mobile-phones-forsending-money-133923508.html

PR Newswire

World Bank: Migration and Remittances

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/
EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:21121930~menuPK:
3145470~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:47
6883,00.html
World Bank

The home page with links to World Bank's resources on remittances

and migration information.

World Bank: Migration and Remittances Data

http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/
EXTDECPROSPECTS/0,,contentMDK:22759429~pagePK:
64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:476883,00.html
World Bank

Links to remittance and migration datasets.

http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org/

World Bank

This website provides data on the cost of sending and receiving

relatively small amounts of money from one country to another. The
site covers 213 "country corridors" worldwide, from 31 remittance
sending countries to 91 receiving countries.

World Bank

Data and information that focuses on financial flows, trends in

external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing
countries. Includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2010,
for most reporting countries.

Inter-American Dialogue

Migrant Remittances is a forum for sharing the latest information

(such as debates, developments, new initiatives, new data, case
studies, and publications) on migrant remittances. The newsletter is
sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID), and produced by QED.

World Bank

The purpose of the report is to analyse these payment system aspects

of remittances and provide general principles to assist countries who
want to improve the market for remittance transfers.

IDB

The Bank has compiled and organized over 1,000 searchable statistics
and indicators for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean,
creating a comprehensive dataset for the region.

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World Bank: Remittance Prices Worldwide
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World Bank: Global Development Finance 2012.

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-developmentfinance

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Inter-American Dialogue: Migrant Remittances Newsletter, May 2011.
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World Bank and Bank for International Settlements: Committee on Payments and
Settlement Systems. General Principles for International Remittance Services,
January 2007.
http://www.bis.org/publ/cpss76.pdf

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http://www.thedialogue.org/migrantremittancesnewsletter

Inter-American Development Bank: Statistics and Databases

http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/statistics-anddatabases,3161.html

John Gibson & David McKenzie & Halahingano Rohorua, 2006. "How Cost
Elastic are Remittances? Estimates from Tongan Migrants in New Zealand,"
Working Papers in Economics 06/02, University of Waikato, Department of
Economics.

ftp://mngt.waikato.ac.nz/RePEc/wai/econwp/0602.pdf

Provides estimate of cost-elasticity of remittance payments.