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Out/Migration,
trafficking and AIDS
Country: Armenia,
Moldova
Time frame: 01 October
2005 – 31 March 2006
Partners:
UN IFAD
This paper reports on the
findings arising from field studies conducted in Armenia and Moldova in November
– December 2005. It proposes a range of pilot initiatives that IFAD could
undertake, building on its present capacities and core-competencies, to
strengthen some of the positive aspects and mitigate adverse impacts of
out-migration in the CEN region.
Among other recommendations
the paper examines the possible development impact of the substantial pool of
migrant savings accumulated in cash, investments and banking systems abroad.
Given that migrants have a high propensity to save, multiplied by the actual
number of migrants and the average period of migration, it suggests that
retained savings in host countries have a value of many thousands of millions of
dollars. The returning long-term migrant may intend to remit these retained
savings, or a portion thereof, at some future date (at which point they are
often termed migrants’ transfers).
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