The use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technologies can prove to be a strong, strategic initiative for many businesses. However, to leverage these potential benefits, organizations must be able to transform ineffective operating procedures and explore alternative implementations of EDI. The project reported here illustrates how a major Fortune 500 corporation was able to meet the challeng...

International migrants are subjected to numerous influences that may alter their fertility. The act of migration is disruptive to reproduction while exposure to different societal norms in addition to the transfer of remittance income can generate ideas and opportunities for household family planning. Contemporary data for three Central American countries (Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua) ...

Capital inflows to the Pacific islands from aid, foreign investment and remittances are an important source of development finance. Remittances are the fastest growing; they now total US$ 400 million per year and can be expected to grow even further as labour mobility is used to deal with seasonal labour shortages in Australia and New Zealand and limited job opportunities in the Pacific. The tr...

Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, in the first study of its kind, the authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on remittance flows is negative and significant; suggesting that a high cost will either refrain migrant’s from sending money back home or make them remit throu...

We follow 3,512 (of 1.4 million) applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas Bangladeshis for low-skilled, temporary labor contracts in Malaysia. Most winners migrate, and their remittance substantially raises family's standard of living Bangladesh. The migrant's absence pauses demographic changes (marriage, childbirth, household formation), shifts decision-making power tow...

vi Financial exclusion is a persistent and continuous challenge, especially with regard to disadvantaged and low-income groups. Indo-German development cooperation in the area of financial systems development, therefore, focuses on the promotion of a stable, efficient and inclusive financial system in India. On behalf of the German Government, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusamm...

E C O N O M I C R E V I E W First Quarter 2005 For a variety of reasons, a heightened interest in understanding the remitting practices of immigrants has emerged. Banks have come to recognize the untapped potential for business in this burgeoning market. Economists have begun to note that remittance inflows into developing nations are, in many cases, catching up to and exceeding traditional sou...

This article examines the determinants of remittance transfers, specifically focusing on the impact of crimes on remittances. Using the 2003 Quality of Life Survey of Colombia, we find that both domestic and international transfers are negatively affected by crime. That is, because crime may have an adverse effect on household assets and the return to investments in the home community, migrants...