Dilip Ratha

 

Remittances & Migration        Future-Flow Securitization     Country Risk Rating

 

Blog on migration and remittances

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Welcome to my personal website. If you would like to be added to my distribution list, or have a question or thought, please send me an email. Recently we started People move: a blog about migration, remittances, and development. Please read and contribute your thoughts.

 

NEW! – The effects of financial crisis on remittance flows. November 2008

NEW BOOK: Innovative Financing for Development

For more information, and a pdf version of the book, read my blog. A panel discussion on this topic is taking place at Doha Financing for Development Conference on December 1, 2008. A book launch and panel discussion on innovative financing took place on October 9, 2008, on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings.

 

“Migration, Remittances, and Development: Policy Options,” Presentation at Lowy Institute, Sydney, July 16, 2008 (powerpoint and audio)

Global Remittance Trends,” A conference call with institutional investors, July 11, 2008 (audio)

“International Migration, Remittances and Development,” Valedictory Speech at SAMREN Workshop, Kathmandu, March 9-16, 2008

"On Finite Lifetimes and Growth." This early paper argued that steady state equilibrium growth may not be feasible in an overlapping generations model if wages had to be paid in advance. Several influential papers analyzing macroeconomic policies assume that the “capital argument of the production function is the saving of the previous period”, but they ignore this lag in determining the price of capital. This result highlights the crucial role played by the time-structure of production in determining growth. Could this result possibly have any implications for the recurrence of financial crisis?

 

 

 Updated 11/14/2008