This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants'
remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of …

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing
resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize …

Many migrations are temporary—a fact that has often been ignored in the economic
literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration …

This article is about the economics of migrant remittances sent to developing countries. I
review the overall magnitude of remittances and what current research reveals about the …

Rural-to-urban migration is an inherent part of the economic development process, yet it is
relatively understudied in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we attempt to describe the …

Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? In a
study of how remittances from overseas respond to income shocks experienced by …

Off-farm activities generate on average more than half of farm households' incomes in the
Mexican ejido sector. Participation in these activities helps reduce poverty and contributes to …

This article proposes a conceptual framework for studying remittances as social transactions
that can take a number of different forms. For the past three decades, the dominant …

Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

Within a theoretical framework, the author analyzes the effects that both workers' remittances
and financial intermediation have on economic growth. It is found, among other things, that …