All modes lead to home: assessing the state of the remittance art

作者: EMMANUEL YUJUICO

DOI: 10.1111/J.1471-0374.2009.00242.X

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摘要: The art of sending remittances overlaps with migration, technological innovation and marketing – three globalization's driving forces. All things being equal, the role regard to is reduce transaction costs in making these transfers. Yet, other aspects mix come into play apart from price such as product user-friendliness, location senders beneficiaries, promotion technologies. In this article, I assess state remittance terms meeting needs beneficiaries future directions that domain may take due further diffusion innovations. Remittance technologies represent a promising direction which cutting edge technology harnessed focus on developing world concerns. By enlisting talents world's foremost service designers, private sector initiatives can helping ease poverty's penalties.

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