Dilip Ratha

 

Remittances & Migration    Diaspora Bonds    Future-Flow Securitization    Country Risk Rating

 

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 Working papers/reports

Outlook for Remittance Flows 2011-13: Remittance flows recover to pre-crisis levels. May 2011.

Preliminary Estimates of Diaspora Savings. February 2011.

Impact of migration on economic and social development : a review of evidence and emerging issues, December 2011

Forecasting migrant remittances during the global financial crisis, December 2010.

Remittances and natural disasters : ex-post response and contribution to ex-ante preparedness, June 2009.

Migration and Development Brief #10 on crisis, remittances and migration, July 2009.

“Beyond Aid: New Sources and Innovative Mechanisms for Financing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,” April 2008

“Development Finance via Diaspora Bonds: Track Record and Potential,” August 2007

“Shadow Sovereign Ratings for Unrated Developing Countries,” World Bank, June 2007

“On Reducing Remittance Costs World Bank, May 2005.

“Recent Advances in Future-Flow Securitization Paper presented at Annual Finance & Accounting International Conference - Managing Securitization for Lebanon and the MENA Region, December 3-4, 2004, Lebanese American University, School of Business, Beirut, Lebanon.

“Why should we care about workers’ remittances? And what should we do?” Note presented at the Expert Meeting of the Global Commission on International Migration, Geneva, January 20-21, 2004.

“Development Financing during a Crisis: Future-Flow Securitization Policy Research Working Paper 2582, April 2001.

“Middle-Income Countries: Development Challenges and Growing Global Role World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2657, August 2001.

“Demand for World Bank Lending,”  World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2562, July 2001.

“What Factors Appear to Drive the Flows of Private Capital to Developing Countries? And How Does IBRD/IDA Lending Respond?” World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2392, July 2000.

“Capital inflows and outflows: Measurement, determinants, and consequencesUniversidad Torcuao di Tella, Buenos Aires.

“Complementarity

 between Multilateral Flows and Private Flows to Developing Countries: Some Empirical Results,”

 Policy Research Working Paper 2746, December 2001.

“Non-state Enterprises as an Engine of Growth: An Analysis of Provincial Industrial Growth in Post-Reform China,” PRDTE, World Bank. Also University of Hong Kong Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 157:1-23, August 1994.

State Enterprise Reforms and Private Sector Development in Myanmar - Lessons from Other Countries Chapter in Myanmar Country Economic Memorandum, East Asia Department, World Bank, February 1995.

"Wage Reforms and Labor Productivity in Chinese Industry," Research Paper Series on Enterprise Behavior and Economic Reforms, PRDTE, World Bank, February 1994.

"Profitability and Capital Productivity in Chinese Industry," Research Paper Series on Enterprise Behavior and Economic Reforms, PRDTE, World Bank, April 1995.

“Insider and Capitalist Controlled Firms: Equivalence and Differences,” Research Paper Series on Enterprise Behavior and Economic Reforms, PRDTE, World Bank, May 1994.

"Comparative Investment Behavior of Chinese Firms," Research Paper Series on Enterprise Behavior and Economic Reforms, PRDTE, World Bank, November 1993.

"Towards a New Specification of a Trade Model," The Policy Group, New Delhi, March 1989.

"A Non-Walrasian Computable General Equilibrium Model of India for Analyzing Monetary and Fiscal Policies," Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, July 1988.

"Inflation, Growth and Administered Prices: Some Lessons from a Model of India," Report submitted to the Planning Commission of India, April 1988.

"Food Subsidies and Economic Growth: A General Equilibrium Analysis," Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, May 1988.

"Budget Deficit and Inflation in a Dual Economy," Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, February 1989 (Pradhan and Sarma).

"Financing Plans: A Review," Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, 1985 (with Sarma and Verma).