interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …