Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) on the Remittances Market: Money Transfer Activity and Savings Mobilisation
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Keywords
savings; migrants’ savings; remittances; microfinance institutions (MFIs); money transfer activity.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MFD-2009-06-03 (Microfinance)
- NEP-MIG-2009-06-03 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-SEA-2009-06-03 (South East Asia)
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