Therefore, gaining a better understanding of how immigration enforcement and, more broadly, U.S. immigration policy impacts remittance flows is critically important when drafting viable economic development policies.
However, traditional government and NGO development activities lack a comprehensive strategy and policy on remittances to tackle poverty at a local or national level.
Policymakers have long used the benefits of remittances to underpin emigration policy.
The agreements did not require age verification or tax collection and remittance, two of the key policy concerns raised by Internet tobacco sales.
Balancing human rights discourses (for instance, the right of a single mother to migrate for economic reasons), in the context of social and health impact to both families and remittance dependent economies form formidable policy challenges for governments seeking to 'manage' migration and development.
Manuel Orozco, an expert at the Inter-American Dialogue, a center for policy analysis, said remittances to Cuba — estimated at $900 million to $1.4 billion last year — were important to the small businesses springing up on the island.
The upgrade, Fitch said, reflected a persistent current account surplus, underpinned by remittance inflows, while a "strong policy-making framework" — notably effective inflation management by the central bank — has supported the overall economy in recent years.
"Should it be the case that short-term interest rates rise, which of course could happen if the economy recovers and we need to normalize monetary policy, then those remittances could go down," Mr. Bernanke said Friday.
Surprisingly, the impact that remittances may have on governments' policy choices has been less researched (Ketkar & Ratha, 2010; Leblang, 2010; Singer, 2010).
"I just cannot see how cutting the remittance lifeline squares with British foreign policy in the Horn of Africa.
