Eugene Tempel and Una Osili have an article in the recent Nonprofit Times that examines how recent trends in immigration might affect the U.S. nonprofit sector.   Their analysis provides additional nuance to the previous postings on remittances.  They too highlight the $200 billion worth of private transfers for 2005, as estimated by the World Bank, [...]

While both the Homi Kharas/Blum Brookings summary and the Index of Global Philanthropy focus solely on quantity, the Center for Global Development’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI) attempts to incorporate aspects of aid quality.  Since ”aid is about more than money,” the CDI rewards donor selectivity and penalizes tied aid, project proliferation, donor fragmentation, and lack of [...]

The Index of Global Philanthropy 2008 (mentioned in my previous post) tries to take a comprehensive approach to tracking funding flows and has developed a measure called “U.S. economic engagement.”  It includes official development assistance (ODA); private giving through foundations, NGO/private voluntary organizations, universities and colleges, and faith-based groups; private capital flows; and remittances from immigrants [...]