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By Femi Makinde
Published: Wednesday, 20 Sep 2006
The United Nations has ranked Nigeria as the country with the largest remittances of migrants in the sub-Saharan Africa.
Sudan was ranked second while South Africa was rated third.
The ranking was contained in a statement by the UN Department of Public Information made available to our correspondent in Lagos on Tuesday.
Senegal was followed by Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda, while Mauritius was ranked eighth. Mali and Togo came ninth and tenth.
The remittances, according to the statement, were received in 2004.
The statement was circulated to journalists at a seminar on international migration and development organised by the Women’s Optimum Development Foundation and the UN Information Centre.
According to the statement, “Diaspora of Sub-Saharan African living overseas has returned a considerable amount of their earnings to families in home countries.”
It added that the migration abroad for greener pasture had impacted positively on the development of the continent.
The statement quoted the UN Economic Commission as saying that “international migration has positive effects on social and economic development in Africa.”
It said that the remittances from wages of migrants abroad and the income multipliers they created were critical resources for the sustenance strategies of receiving household.
“The extra resources at the disposal of these households in turn make them agents of local and national development. An increasing number of overseas migrants in conjunction with hometown associations, investment groups and religious groups are involved in transnational activities that help to integrate African countries with global economy.
“Hundreds of small and medium scale factories, commercial businesses and agricultural enterprises have been established by returnees, initiating knowledge spill-over from migrants, employment opportunities, profits and additional to the local and national tax base.”
However, the Un Conference on Trade and Development estimated that each professional leaving Africa cost the region $184,000. The ECA noted that the departures of health workers from the continent to richer countries had led to a significant deficit of essential skills in the health sector.
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