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 into a source of development for their homelands. This...

This paper makes the point that migrants have different motives for sending remittances and remittance receivers have different claims on migrants' income, depending on whether people move to accumulate capital to improve their living at home after they return - temporary migration - or to start...

Williamson, Jeffrey G.; Yousef, Tarik M.: Demographic transitions and economic performance in the Middle East and North Africa. - S. 16-36 Rashad, Hoda; Khadr, Zeinab: New challenges in the demography of the Arab region. - S. 37-61 Ali, Ali A.; Elbadawi, Ibrahim A.: Poverty in the Arab world: the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of exogenous shocks of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output in five Mediterranean countries. Design/methodology/approach – This paper builds a Keynesian type econometric model with a dynamic perspective and a...