Although the phenomenon of international migration has been around for a while, in the last decades there has been a … monetary remittances. These tendencies have revived the debate in the academic and policy spheres over their potential social … international migration and make special emphasis on how the Latin American experience fits in it. We first present an overview of …

proved elusive thus far. This paper explores the potential for migration to serve as a safety valve as well as a medium term …

-gyz labor migrant. Remittances shape the present state of the Kyrgyz economy;the quality of human capital, and its future …

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances … that remittances have significant poverty-alleviating effect, with the poorest of the poor being the least beneficiaries …

send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and … migration, but are worse off in many aspects, e.g. housing. This is because they live in poor, semi-legal conditions and because … migration is an expensive investment. Consequently, family solidarity remains high after migration, especially financial and …

foreign aid as its leading external non-debt capital and attracts the least remittances, notwithstanding the positive growth … with remittance inflows. This implies remittances are likely to be driven by sound macroeconomic environment in recipient … countries. An affirmation of this finding is that, in SSA, (and, indeed, for all developing economies), remittances are pro …

adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … under which, and the mechanisms through which, migration can transform individual benefits into an aggregated one, for the … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …

There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … that characterize Haitian society. Although expectations about macroeconomic impacts of remittances on beneficiaries …

After eighteen years of mass migration of the Albanian population, primarily to Greece and Italy, a question arises … role and the importance of remittances and their use in Albania through a survey of 400 Albanian immigrants, legally … urban areas of the Vlorë region in Albania. We build on the theory of “New Economics of Labour Migration” which considers …