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Can immigrant remittances support development finance?

Author(s) -

Alex Julca

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

panoeconomicus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2217-2386

pISSN - 1452-595X

DOI - 10.2298/pan1303365j

Subject(s) - investment (military) , immigration , foreign direct investment , economics , scale (ratio) , public investment , finance , public finance , economic growth , fiscal policy , development economics , business , economic policy , political science , monetary economics , macroeconomics , physics , quantum mechanics , politics , law

Immigrant remittances are a significant source of income and finance for developing economies, representing about three times’ official development assistance and over half of foreign direct investment annually received. Major motivations to send remittances are for improving food, health, and education spending of families at home as well as for investing in entrepreneurial ventures. Economic policies to channel remittances into development finance should translate these motivations into measures to boost social investment and local and regional production, linking remittances policies to broader fiscal, financial and institutional policies. A national development bank can be a catalyser of public and private interests by supporting the scale up of remittances investment programmes and by building partnerships with regional and multilateral development institutions

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