This paper reviews some of the microeconomic evidence concerning migration and remittances in Africa. After a brief … best offspring away with a view to diversify its risks and to build a social network. Then, remittances are to a large … three decades: the rich families are more likely to send some migrants away and thus get more remittances, while they earn …

The objective of the paper is to analyze the respective impact of aid and remittances on human development as measured … health aid and remittances contribute to reduce child health disparities between countries, the paper addresses two other … impact of aid and remittances on intra-country child health disparities? Our results suggest that both remittances and health …

migration has a strong impact on poverty reduction in the Kayes area. She proposes that migration-cum-remittances alone do not … create the right conditions for genuine development even if the non-productive use of remittances may strongly impact on the …

, migrant networks may well have a great influence on remittances to their home country and particularly to their origin …, remittances may be a fee that migrants pay to get access to network services. In this paper, we thus analyze to what extent …

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …

This article analyses the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain (MBD) on child mortality using … remittances reduce child mortality while MBD increases it. Health aid also significantly reduces child mortality but its impact is … less robust than the impact of remittances. Remittances seem to be more effective in reducing mortality for children …

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …