Linguere Mbaye – Remittances and natural disasters
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2018-07-09

Linguere Mbaye from the African Development Bank talks about the significance of migrants' remittances in poverty reduction in countries that experience natural disasters. Money transfers of migrants have a reducing effect on poverty in their countries of origin. The effect is even stronger when poor countries experience natural disasters. However, remittances go to certain group of people and it is important for people who do not receive remittances to benefit from public intervention.

The interview is from the Migration and Mobility Conference held on 5-6 October 2017 in Accra, Ghana.