Author: Dilip Ratha; William Shaw
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: south, working, papers, bank, world, migration, remittances
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2007-05-02
ISBN-10: 0821370723
ISBN-13: 9780821370728

South-South Migration and Remittances reports on preliminary results from an ongoing effort to improve data on bilateral migration stocks. It sets out some working hypotheses on the determinants and socioeconomic implications of South-South migration. Contrary to popular perception that migration is mostly a South-North phenomenon, South-South migration is large. Available data from national censuses suggest that nearly half of the migrants from developing countries reside in other developing countries. Almost 80 percent of South-South migration takes place between countries with contiguous bo