Remittances from abroad account for an average of 10% of GDP in the Central American region, an important source of income despite varying drastically between countries –– in El Salvador it represented 20.9% of GDP while in Costa Rica it was 0.84% in 2019––. The economic importance of remittances means that unforeseen external phenomena such as the coronavirus pandemic put the expected income of the Central American nations at risk. A reliable model is necessary to be able to project the flow of remittances and reduce uncertainty for the monetary authorities and national budgets of ...
The NCID Resident Fellow Tijan Bah organized a day's workshop in The Gambia to talk to stakeholders about his project on the intentions of Gambian youth to irregulary migrate to Europe. The research project intends to give information to youngsters on the risk of travelling and offer vocational training programmes to the youth.
Video by NOVAFRICA.
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This article was originally published at globaldev by NCID Resident Fellow Tijan Bah, together with his co-researchers David McKenzie, Catia Batista and Florence Gubert. You can read the original article here. This piece refers to the project Information Gaps and Irregular Migration.
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