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   Letter to Barclays Bank - "No winners from the closure of Barclays’ Somali accounts"

   Opinion - Letters - 2 September 2013

   ​Kevin Watkins, the Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute has called on Barclays Bank to reconsider its decision to close its Somalia accounts, describing the move as 'unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat to some of the world's most vulnerable people’.

   He cites new research from the Humanitarian Policy Group in ODI on a major cash transfer programme introduced in response to the Horn of Africa famine.

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2. Live stream launch of the European Report on Development 2013

   Event - Live Stream - 9 April 2013 09:00 - 11:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

   Live stream of the launch event for The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013. The latest report aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development.

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3. Prospecting policy issues for the Nepal Centre for Inclusive Growth

   Projects - May 2011 to April 2014

   Looking at the interface between knowledge, policy and power, this research project will primarily focus on scoping possible issues for the Nepal Centre for Inclusive Growth (CIG) to address.

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   The G-20 growth framework: what role for low-income, small and vulnerable countries?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 17 June 2010

   Next week, G-20 leaders will meet in Toronto, only weeks after their Finance ministers agreed a shift toward collective austerity. Today, ODI launches a collection of essays in a study to inform the G-20 leaders and underline the impact their decisions may have on low-income countries.

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5. 

   The global financial crisis and remittances: What past evidence suggests

   Publication - Discussion papers - 3 June 2009

   ODI Working Papers 303

   Massimiliano Calì with Salvatore Dell’Erba

   Using a model of remittance outflows’ determinants and information on past systemic banking crises, this working paper identifies possible effects of the current crisis on total remittances to developing countries.

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6. Sending money home

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 June 2008

   Looking at the vital role of workers who send their money home to Latin America and how they can create a "brain gain" effect.

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   Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response

   Publication - Briefing papers - 15 June 2007

   HPG Policy Briefs 26

   Kevin Savage and Paul Harvey

   This paper reports on a two-year study which explored how affected people use remittance income to survive and recover from crises, the effect that crises can have on remittance flows and the way that humanitarian responses consider the role of remittances.

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   The Role of Migration and Remittances in Promoting Livelihoods in Bihar

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 December 2006

   Priya Deshingkar, Sushil Kumar, Harendra Kumar Chobey and Dhananjay Kumar

   Provides an assessment of migration and remittance patterns in six districts of Bihar with a view to identifying practical steps that can be taken by the two projects to maximise the benefits and minimise the negative impacts of migration.

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   Remittances in crisis: Sri Lanka after the tsunami

   Publication - Discussion papers - 31 July 2006

   HPG Background Papers

   Priya Deshingkar and M. M. M. Aheeyar

   Migrant and diaspora remittances flowed generously immediately after the tsunami once again demonstrating the counter cyclical nature of remittances. While some migrants hand carried money back when they returned after the Tsunami others sent money through trusted channels such as banks and other formal channels. But the damage to infrastructure as well as the loss of documents meant that many affected families could not access remittances sent through that route.

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