Ireland and Portugal are seeing highest levels of emigration of the young and the skilled in decades.
Mobile money transfer is expanding into payment of pensions (M-Pesa in Tanzania) and collaboration with banks (India).
There are ongoing talks between India and UAE to raise the minimum wage of migrant workers.
Detailed news:
- Leaving home... the new wave of emigration (Jan. 9,2011)
- Young people are fleeing Portugal in droves. But is this a bad thing? (Jan. 9, 2011)
- Tanzania: M-Pesa Launches Social Security Remittance Scheme (Jan. 13, 2011)
- Airtel and State Bank Of India Ink Mobile Payments Joint Venture (Jan. 12, 2011)
- India proposes hike in minimum wages for its workers (Jan. 4, 2011)
- Back channel remittances to Sudan soar (Jan. 14, 2011)
- Pakistan: Remittances rise 17% to $5.3bn in first half of FY11 (Jan. 12, 2011)
- Australia: International education sector braces for a fall (Jan. 12, 2011)
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