Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the support provided by the World Bank. We also thank Dr. Pinar Yazgan and Dr. Meghan Craig, who assisted in the copyediting and in the preparation of the bibliography. We are also thankful to our many colleagues who have contributed to this volume as authors or reviewers. We would like to acknowledge the permission given by Migration Letters to reprint the following papers, which were first published in a special issue of the journal in October 2010: Mohapatra and Ratha, “Forecasting Migrant Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis”; Acosta, Baez, Beazley, and Murrugarra, “The Case of El Salvador”; Lacalle, “The Impact of the Global Economic Downturn on Remittances from the European Union”; Singh, “From Shock Absorber to Shock Transmitter: Sub-Saharan Africa”; and Naufal and VargasSilva, “Migrant Transfers in the MENA Region: A Two-Way Street in Which Traffic Is Changing.” We also acknowledge the permission to reprint the paper by Green and Winters, an earlier version of which was published in The World Economy (Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 1053–72). We would also like to thank Otaviano Canuto, Sonia Plaza, Hans Timmer, and Ani Rudra Silwal of the World Bank for encouragement and support at various stages of the book. Book design, editing, and production were coordinated by Aziz Gökdemir, Stephen McGroarty, Stephen Pazdan, and Nora Ridolfi of the World Bank Office of the Publisher. Nita Congress typeset the book and provided editing, proofreading, and project management assistance. Bill Pragluski of Critical Stages designed the cover.
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