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 …

In this paper we review the current state of literature on the determinants of remittances
since it is important to understand remittance flows from a policy perspective since they …

This paper assesses the effect of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan
Africa. Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical …

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 …

Most households in low-income countries deal with economic hardships through informal
insurance arrangements between individuals and communities rather than through publicly …

Urban Livelihoods and Food and Nutrition Security in Greater Accra, Ghana, Research
Report 112, offers a compelling case study of the impact of urban life on the livelihoods, food …

This article uses recent household survey data from the Kayes area (western Mali) to
analyse the determinants of remittances from both internal and international migration. The …

Two non-exclusive hypotheses about what motivates remittances sent by Dominican
migrants to their rural parents in the Sierra are tested:(a) an insurance contract taken by …

Voluntary compliance is an important aspect of strong tax regimes, but there is limited
understanding of how social norms favoring compliance emerge. Using novel data from …