Seminar on Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments and Outlook

The Migration and Remittances team (DECPG) is pleased to invite you to the following seminar:
 

The session will address the following:

• Recent trends and outlook for migration and remittances
• Special Topic: Financing for Development - discussion of the role of migration and remittances in Financing for Development including how reducing remittances and recruitment costs, leveraging remittances and mobilizing diaspora resources can provide additional sources of financing. Developing countries can potentially raise tens of billions of dollars annually through innovative methods of raising market-based development finance: securitization of future flows receivables and diaspora bonds.

The presentation will discuss recently released Migration and Development Brief 24.

Presenter: Dilip Ratha, Lead Economist, Head of KNOMAD, Migration and Remittances, DECPG, World Bank
Moderator: Merrell Tuck-Primdahl, Senior Communications Officer, DECOS, World Bank
 
Link to live streaming:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CvJt8pFe-wU?feature=player_detailpage
 
Participants who wish to post questions will be able to do so by Joining WebEx meeting
Meeting number: 733 866 242
Meeting password: rmUTeUX3
 
To Join by phone:
1-650-479-3207 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)
Access code: 733 866 242
Global call-in numbers
 
To join the conversation on Twitter: #MigrationBrief24
 
Participants who are not World Bank/IMF staff, please contact Harifera Raobelison (Hraobelison@worldbank.org) to RSVP and request a visitor pass.