Remittance markets in Africa

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Title:	Remittance markets in Africa
Editors:	Mohapatra, Sanket Ratha, Dilip
Year:	2011
Pages:	352
Language:	English
Series:	Directions in development, Finance
City of publisher:	Washington, DC
Publisher:	World Bank
ISBN:	0821384759; 9780821384756
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa United Kingdom France
Subjects:	remittances emigrants
Abstract:	This volume draws on primary surveys of remittance service providers in eight sub-Saharan African countries and two key migrant-destination countries (France and the United Kingdom) to discuss the policy and institutional challenges and emerging opportunities in African remittance markets. It presents findings on types of remittance services, barriers to entry and exit, industry structure, legal and regulatory environments, and innovations in remittance markets. The first part contains an overview of migrant remittances in Africa by S. Mohapatra and D. Ratha. Part 2, Remittance markets in remittance-receiving countries, examines Burkina Faso (Yiriyibin Bambio); Cape Verde (Georgiana Pop); Ethiopia (Alemayehu Geda, Jacqueline Irving); Ghana (Peter Quartey); Kenya (Rose W. Ngugi); Nigeria (Chukwuma Agu); Senegal (Fatou Cisse); and Uganda (Rose W. Ngugi, Edward Sennoga). Part 3, Remittance markets in remittance-source countries, looks at France (Frederic Ponsot) and the United Kingdom (Leon Isaacs). [ASC Leiden abstract]