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No Easy Solution A Smorgasbord Of Factors Drive Remittance Costs
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Author :Tito Nícias Teixeira da Silva Filho Publisher :International Monetary Fund ISBN 13 :1513592955 Total Pages :62 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (135 download)
Book Synopsis No Easy Solution: A Smorgasbord of Factors Drive Remittance Costs by : Tito Nícias Teixeira da Silva Filho
Download or read book No Easy Solution: A Smorgasbord of Factors Drive Remittance Costs written by Tito Nícias Teixeira da Silva Filho and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a global push to decrease the cost of remittances since at least 2009, which has culminated with its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Despite this effort and the emergence of new business models, remittance costs have been decreasing very slowly, disproving predictions that sharp declines would be just around the corner. In addition, remitting to poorer countries remains very expensive. Oddly, this situation has not been able to elicit academic interest on the drivers of remittance costs. This paper delved deeply into the remittances ecosystem and found a very complex, heterogenous and unequal environment, one in which costs are driven by a myriad of factors and where there are no easy and quick solutions available, which explains the disappointing outcome so far. Nonetheless, it also shows that while policymakers have limited room to act they still have a very important role to play.
Book Synopsis How Do Transaction Costs Influence Remittances by : Mr. Kangni R Kpodar
Download or read book How Do Transaction Costs Influence Remittances written by Mr. Kangni R Kpodar and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a new quarterly panel database on remittances (71 countries over the period 2011Q1- 2020Q4), this paper investigates the elasticity of remittances to transaction costs in a high frequency and dynamic setting. It adds to the literature by systematically exploring the heterogeneity in the cost-elasticity of remittances along several country characteristics. The findings suggest that cost reductions have a short-term positive impact on remittances, that dissipates beyond one quarter. According to our estimates, reducing transaction costs to the Sustainable Development Goal target of 3 percent could generate an additional US$32bn in remittances, higher that the direct cost savings from lower transaction costs, thus suggesting an absolute elasticity greater than one. Among remittance cost-mitigation factors, higher competition in the remittance market, a deeper financial sector, and adequate correspondent banking relationships are associated with a lower elasticity of remittance to transaction costs. Similarly, remittance cost-adaptation factors such as enhanced transparency in remittance costs, improved financial literary and higher ICT development coincide with remittances being less sensitive to transaction costs. Supplementing the panel analysis, the use of micro data from the USA-Mexico corridor confirm that migrants facing higher transaction costs tend to remit less, and that this effect is less pronounced for skilled migrants and those that have access to a bank account.
Book Synopsis Digital Money and Remittances Costs in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic by : Ms. Alina Carare
Download or read book Digital Money and Remittances Costs in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic written by Ms. Alina Carare and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates factors that predict variation in digital and non-digital remittance fees over time and across countries, exploring differences between CAPDR and other regions. The paper fills a void in the literature on how country- and corridor-specific factors relate to remittance fees at different levels of digitalization of the transaction mode. It also complements stylized facts and regression analysis with a survey analysis of the CAPDR authorities’ views on the latest developments, possibilities, and risks related to digital remittances with a view to gauging the authorities’ potential role in further reducing the cost of cross-border payments more generally and remittances fees in particular. The paper finds a clear trend of declining remittance fees across countries and at any level of digitalization, albeit they remain higher for CAPDR countries relative to non-CAPDR countries. More competition, financial and digital development in receiving countries—such as debit/credit card ownership or bank branch penetration—are associated with lower remittance fees, especially in CAPDR. The surveyed authorities actively explore the use of digital money to advance domestic payment systems, expedite financial inclusion, and lower remittances fees, yet see considerable risks, especially for preserving monetary sovereignty in CAPDR.
Book Synopsis Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Fintech Hype Meets Reality in the Remittances Market by : Tito Nícias Teixeira da Silva Filho
Download or read book Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Fintech Hype Meets Reality in the Remittances Market written by Tito Nícias Teixeira da Silva Filho and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fintech has become one of the most popular topics among policymakers and experts. It usually comes with the qualifier “disruptive”. Thus, the hype is easy to understand: fintech would upend the financial system due to its disruptive nature, as it would allow financial services to be completed faster, cheaper, and more efficiently. Indeed, many have predicted that the remittances market was on the verge of being disrupted as remittances are considered too costly while remittance service providers inefficient, opaque, and outdated. Therefore, there seems to be no better setting for assessing the allegedly disruptive effects of fintech. Against that background, this paper investigates how those predictions have fared so far. Contrary to expectations, it found that instead of disrupting incumbents fintechs have increasingly been entangled with them. Therefore, not only there is no evidence of disruption, but it is unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future. Even so, the paper argues that fintechs play an important role in the remittances market.
Book Synopsis Blockchain Fundamentals for Web 3.0 by : Mary C. Lacity
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Book Synopsis Nigeria’s ENaira, One Year After by : Jookyung Ree
Download or read book Nigeria’s ENaira, One Year After written by Jookyung Ree and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reflects on the first year of the eNaira—the first CBDC in Africa. Despite the laudable undisrupted operation for the first full year, the CBDC project has not yet moved beyond the initial wave of limited adoption. Network effects suggest the initial low adoption spell will require a coordinated policy drive to break it. The eNaira’s potential in financial inclusion requires a strategy to set the right relationship with mobile money, given the former’s potential to either complement or substitute the latter. Cost savings from integrating CBDC—as a bridge vehicle—in the remittance process may also be substantial.
Book Synopsis Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar by : Monique Skidmore
Download or read book Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar written by Monique Skidmore and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass peaceful protests in Myanmar/Burma in 2007 drew the world's attention to the ongoing problems faced by this country and its oppressed people. In this publication, experts from around the world analyse the reasons for these recent political upheavals, explain how the country's economy, education and health sectors are in perceptible decline, and identify the underlying authoritarian pressures that characterise Myanmar/Burma's military regime.
Book Synopsis The Manchurian Candidate by : Richard Condon
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Book Synopsis The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate" by : John D. Marks
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Book Synopsis Global Outlaws by : Carolyn Nordstrom
Download or read book Global Outlaws written by Carolyn Nordstrom and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply insightful book that connects the dots of the hidden systems that have subverted democracy and caused the type of desperation and anger that result in a 9/11. A book that opens our awareness."--John Perkins, author of The New York Times bestseller Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man "Anyone interested in global economic crime should read this book."--Charmian Gooch, a founding director of Global Witness "Global Outlaws is a revealing book about a global trend whose importance is still far from being fully recognized."--Moises Naim, Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy Magazine and author of Illicit: How Smugglers Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy "Carolyn Nordstrom's important new book takes us on a dark journey through war-torn landscapes riddled with corruption, violence, and gross inequalities. It is a compelling study--one guided by the norms of scholarly research but also written out of deeply felt experience. A book infused by anger, compassion, but also hope."--Andrew Mack, University of British Columbia "This is a fascinating, insightful, and important ethnographic study of the intersection of crime, finance, and power in the illegal, 'informal', or underground economy. I have read all of Carolyn Nordstrom's books, and this is the best one yet."--Jeff Sluka, Massey University "Carolyn Nordstrom's Global Outlaws is a rare and remarkable fusion of economic anthropology and travel writing. The prose is highly engaging without being sensationalistic. This is a timely and fascinating read for anyone looking for an on-the-ground account of the clandestine underside of globalization."--Peter Andreas, co-author of Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations "Carolyn Nordstrom is the best fieldworker in anthropology, bar none. Yet again she has pioneered new fieldsites and new forms of ethnography in this book, as well as presented a new framework for viewing economics and economic power. This is undoubtedly a highly important work that sets new frontiers for anthropology."--Monique Skidmore, Australian National University
Book Synopsis Microfinance India by : N Srinivasan
Download or read book Microfinance India written by N Srinivasan and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microfinance India: State of the Sector Report 2010 presents the growth of the microfinance sector in India in its entirety. It offers in-depth, well-researched, and well-analyzed evidence on how the sector has made an impact at various levels of the economy and society. The report provides most recent statistical data relating to the sector's growth and expansion across models. It highlights perspectives on current issues and documents new interest, new investments and innovations in the sector. Included in the report are: a comparison of the performance of SHG and MFI models, Microfinance Penetration Indices that compare client outreach across states and discussions on innovations and novel experiments in the sector and themes of topical relevance. It also identifies knowledge and practice gaps that require further research and study.
Book Synopsis The Stigma of Mental Illness - End of the Story? by : Wolfgang Gaebel
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Book Synopsis Words You Should Know How to Spell by : David Hatcher
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Book Synopsis Crypto Revolution by : Sam Volkering
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Book Synopsis Diaspora and Hybridity by : Virinder Kalra
Download or read book Diaspora and Hybridity written by Virinder Kalra and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies’ - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, providing the reader with a framework to evaluate and displace the key ideological arguments, theories and narratives deployed in culturalist academic circles today. The authors demonstrate how diaspora and hybridity serve as problematic tools, cutting across traditional boundaries of nations and groups, where trans-national spaces for a range of contested cultural, political and economic outcomes might arise. Wide ranging, richly illustrated and challenging, it will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, ethnicity and nationalism.
Book Synopsis Washington Confidential by : Lee Mortimer
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