Schedule of Events

Worker’s Remittances: Capturing New Market Opportunities.  Berlin, Germany.  June 17-18, 2008.

Remittances Public/Private Partnership Meeting. The first meeting of the Remittances Public Private Partnership will take place in the context of the Global Payments Week 2008 organized by the World Bank. Working sessions will be held on legal and regulatory issues, industry codes of conduct, and information disclosure mechanisms. Vienna, Austria. September 12, 2008. Contacts: Carlo Corazza and Gregory Watson.

Past Events

Channeling Remittances through Credit and Savings Cooperatives in Latin America.  Organized by CEMLA and DGRV. Quito, Ecuador. May 14-15, 2008.

Remittances – Creating Value.  This intensive 2-day course provided an insight of the payment system aspects of remittances, and was designed to assist financial institutions that want to improve their understanding of this important market as well as develop the many business opportunities that present themselves. Organized by Citadel Advantage. Johannesburg, South Africa, 25–26 February 2008.

Remittances, the Macroeconomy, and Public Policy.  The conference was intended to provide a forum for discussing innovative research on remittances and to facilitate the exchange of views among researchers and policymakers. Organized by The Americas Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. February 21–22, 2008.

International Forum on Remittances 2007.  The forum explored the links between remittances and banking, technology and microfinance, and discussed ways to integrate development agencies’ agendas on remittances. Organized by The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Washington DC. October 18-19, 2007.

G8 meeting on remittances.  The high-level meeting had two objectives: First, the aim was to assess the progress of measures to facilitate remittances agreed at the Sea Island Summit in 2004. Second, the conference was intended to initiate a dialogue on new channels for transferring funds, instruments to promote remittances and other potential measures. Held by the Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany. November 28 - 30 2007.

International Forum on Remittances 2007.  The forum explored the links between remittances and banking, technology and microfinance, and discussed ways to integrate development agencies’ agendas on remittances. The two-day event included a series of roundtable discussions and working groups devoted to an in-depth exchange of ideas and business models for urban and rural remittances worldwide. Organized by The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Washington DC. October 18 - 19, 2007.

Global Forum on Migration and Development.  This Forum served as an informal intergovernmental consultative body to distill possible options for international co-operation on migration. The Forum looked into ways, among others, to facilitate remittances, engage diasporas, and integrate migration into poverty reduction strategies. The World Bank took part in the first meeting of the forum, which Belgium volunteered to host. Brussels. July 9 - 11, 2007.

Remittances and Housing - New Opportunities in Latin America. The conference focused on the opportunities and challenges on the new remittance housing market, and discussed the role of the public and the private sector in developing it. Organized by the Inter-American Development Bank. El Salvador . March 22, 2007.

Pan African remittances conference Enhancing the investment and development capacity of remittances to Africa.  This conference developed products and strategies and exchanged ideas between financial service providers, central banks, micro finance institutions, policy makers and sector specific companies on the methods of transferring money to and within Africa. Organized by Africa Recruit, London. February 8, 2007.

Investing Migrant Resources: Results of Effective Alternatives. The purpose of the seminar was to promote a discussion on innovative strategies and the public policies needed to stimulate the delivery and profitable use of remittances. Organized by the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), through its Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF). Mexico City, Mexico. February 2007.

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