mechanisms proposed. Next the main linkages identified between migration and development – remittances, return migration and …

In this article I have presented the kernel of the migration literature on remittances. I started from their three most … debated features: stability, cyclicality and sustainability. I then moved to the motives driving remittances and, finally … riskier and more productive investments, ‘substituting’ their liquidity constraints with pro-cyclical remittances. On the …

sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …

decrease emigration? Or, are emigration and the remittances sent back to Cape Verde the best for a tiny nation that at times …

aspects each section of this work tries to address. The first part analyses those remittances’ features on which the results … behavioural and economic motives. Finally, the third one tries to go through the relationship between remittances and development …

management; improvements in the quality and availability of data concerning migration in these countries; and placing remittances …