Migration and Remittances Peer Assisted Learning Network (MiRPAL) in Europe and Central Asia
Begins:
Mar 26, 2010 02:00
Ends:
Mar 26, 2010
INFO
This is the second thematic videoconference presented in support of the MiRPAL network and is devoted to the issue of estimating remittance flows both formal and informal, as well as improving information flows on remittances.
Migration community professionals currently use a number of various techniques and tools to estimate more precisely trans-border remittance flows utilizing data on official remittances, estimating informal remittances, and physical transfer of money as well as via estimating the costs of consumer goods being brought in to the country. These complexities pose challenges to the experts to come up with realistic estimates of the volume of remittances and put pressures and challenges on existing methodology.
This session will provide an overview of the issues in (1) measuring remittances—a brief outline of issues and global experiences; and (2) lessons from other regions on leveraging remittances for improving financial access.
The workshop is structured in such a way so as to allow ample time for discussions between the participants before and during the videoconference (offline and online discussions) in order to learn from the best available experience and practices as well as learn from the existing practices in the CIS when it comes to tools, approaches and challenges of estimating the flow of remittances. The results of the discussions will be recorded and reported by each participating site and disseminated to all sites.
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Participating Countries:Â Wednesday, February 3, 2010
City/Country
Participating GDLN Affiliate or World Bank Country Office*Â
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Local World Bank Program Facilitator or local GDLN affiliate contact
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Rep.
World Bank Office
Mr. Bakyt Dubashov
Chisinau, Moldova
World Bank Office
Mr. Iaroslav Baclajanschi
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
World Bank Office
Mr. Vladimir Kolchin
Kiev, Ukraine
World Bank Office
Ms. Svetlana Budagovskaya
Minsk, Belarus
World Bank Office
Ms. Volga Gudey
Moscow, Russian Federation
World Bank Office
Ms. Mikhail Bunchuk
Perm, Russian Federation
Perm State Technical University
Ms. Valentina Bylinkina
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
World Bank Office
Mr. Eskender Trushin
Yerevan, Armenia
World Bank Office
Ms. Gohar Gyulumyan
*GDLN, or the Global Development Learning Network, is a partnership of distance learning centers worldwide dedicated to development. This event is coordinated by the Center for Strategic Research - Region, GDLN affiliate, Moscow, Russia..
For additional information, please contact: Sudharshan Canagarajah, program team leader, scanagarajah@worldbank.org , tel. +1 202 473 4458 Gary Fine, ECA regional GDLN coordinator, gfine@worldbank.org, tel. +1 202 473 4741 Matin Kholmatov, Economist, mkholmatov@worldbank.org, tel: +1 202 473 0277 Mikhail Bunchuk, country GDLN coordinator, mbunchuk@worldbank.org Anastasiya Khrustalyova, Country Participation Facilitator, Hrustalyova@CSR.ru, tel: +7 499 7956627
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AGENDA
The one-hour pre-video conference workshops start promptly at 02:00 a.m. Washington time and at the following times at participating locations:
City
Time
Bishkek
12:00
Chisinau
08:00
Dushanbe
11:00
Kiev
8:00
Minsk
8:00
Moscow
9:00
Perm
11:00
Tashkent
11:00
Yerevan
10:00
In order to facilitate a more structured dialogue, participants are requested to spend 1 hour prior to the VC discussing the following three questions as applied to their countries and present their ideas during the VC after presentations by the WB and MIRPAL host agency:
What kinds of methodologies are currently being used in your country in estimating remittance flows?
What could be done to increase the efficiency of information exchange on remittances between countries and within countries?
Pre-conference discussion continues directly into video conference, which starts at 03:00 a.m. Washington time.
Can’t join us? View the live webcast -->
mms://wbmswebcast1.worldbank.org/live - Windows Media (in English)
http://streaming7.worldbank.org/vvflash/extlive - Flash Player (in Russian)
Program Producers At World Bank, Washington: GDLN Studio2, Room MC-C2-123
Program Leader:
Sudharshan Canagarajah, Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Dept, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Resource people and invited experts:
Recorded presentation by Sanket Mohapatra, lead economist, Development Prospects Group, World Bank
Program Moderator:
Gary Fine, GDLN Coordinator, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Local Moscow Moderator:
Vyacheslav Postavnin, Head of MiRPAL Host-organization and President, Fund Migration XXI
SPEAKERS’ BIOS
Mr. Sanket Mohapatra is an economist with the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank. Сo-author of the background paper on the determinants of capital inflows and outflows for the Global Development Finance report and a chapter on corporate financing patterns for 2003 Global Development Finance report. In addition, he worked with faculty at Columbia University to explore the links between liberalization episodes and changes in poverty and inequality in several developing countries. His research interests include international capital flows, sovereign and sub-sovereign ratings, poverty, inequality and growth, and the development impact of remittances and migration. Prior to his current assignment, he worked as an economist with the Africa Region of the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia and a masters degree from the Delhi School of Economics.
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