How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by … over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that remittances are slow to respond to natural disasters, unresponsive to outbreaks … a good bulwark against natural disasters and global financial crises in SSA. …

the developing countries have non-linear effects. Some of the non-linear effects vanish if indicators for disasters …

consumption above the poverty line; b. Stability of this income over time (absence of vulnerability; c. Decent working conditions … employment as defined by earnings, vulnerability and working conditions. Much employment is located in the informal sector, where … vulnerability is a serious problem. High youth employment in young populations is another serious challenge. Causes of employment …

-productivity activities in manufacturing assume an important role remains a defining feature of economic development. The challenges to attain … countries requires a type of manufacturing sector development that can deliver high-quality employment, that is aligned with the …

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …

, intermediate and proximate causes of growth and development. …

evolving, and that it depends on the stage of development of a particular country. …

for developing countries in following an MNE-assisted development strategy have changed over the last decade. The growing … share of industrial activity owned and controlled by MNEs does not always result in a proportional increase in development …

Migration was not an explicit goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), rightly so in this writer's view, but it … what is to follow. Two dimensions are central to such a discussion: first, the nature of the development goals post-2015 … that just might provide a path towards integrating migration into development. …