| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 97 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color) |
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World Bank working paper ; no. 149 |
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World Bank working paper ; no. 149.
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LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF BOXES; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Key Statistics of the Malaysia-Indonesia Remittance Corridor; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Global and Regional Trends The Context; CHAPTER 2 Migrants and Remittances The Corridor; CHAPTER 3 Transaction Flows; CHAPTER 4 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations; APPENDIXES; Bibliography; Endpiece Map: Indonesia Overseas Migrants (Outflows) and Remittances (Inflows) Based on Migrants' Place of Origin for the First Quarter 2007 |
| Summary |
In Malaysia, Indonesian migrants are showing an increasingly clear preference for informal transfer mechanisms compared to their counterparts in other countries. A little less than half of all Indonesian migrants overseas--thought to be around 2 million--are working in Malaysia. An increasing number of migrants are women, and the corridor is also marked by a high number of undocumented migrants. Despite the increasing flows of migrants, only about 10 percent of the estimated flow of remittances into Indonesia from Malaysia is transferred through the formal system. The extent of the preference fo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Indonesian -- Malaysia
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Migrant remittances -- Indonesia
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Migrant remittances -- Malaysia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Foreign workers, Indonesian
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Migrant remittances
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Indonesia
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Malaysia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hernández-Coss, Raúl, 1968-
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World Bank.
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| ISBN |
0821375776 |
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0821375784 |
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9780821375778 |
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9780821375785 |
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1283300559 |
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9781283300551 |
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9786613300553 |
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6613300551 |
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