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 …

The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the … literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the motivation for … remittances with their effect on economic activity. Because remittances take place under asymmetric information and economic …

buffer against risks that erupted during the global economic crisis. Mexico has been identified as a prudent and fairly well …

Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international … understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources …

Beyond Small Change examines the phenomenon of migrant remittances in hopes of contributing to international … understanding of remittances, promoting better policies and practices in this area, and turning migrant workers' hard-won resources …

, and paradoxes abound. This paper summarizes global trends in world migration and remittances, discusses some paradoxes … surrounding the trade-migration-development relationship, and reports findings from new research on Mexico-to-U.S. migration …The interactions among trade, international migration, and economic development in migrant-sending areas are complex …

commentary explores recent trends in U.S.?Mexico remittances, explaining how they are measured and comparing them with forecasts …Summary and discussion of the three papers in this session: "Leveraging remittances for development" by Dilip Ratha …; "Remittances and their microeconomic impacts: evidence from Latin America" by Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes; and "The relationship …