The increasing volume of remittances and public transfers in rural areas of the developing world has raised hopes that … different countries. Overall, the studies embrace a less optimistic view of the role of migration and public and private … transfers on agriculture, with migration as facilitating a transition away from agriculture or to models of less labour …

In this paper, we present evidence indicating that international migrant remittances lead to improved developmental … fraction of households receiving international remittances is correlated with better schooling and health indicators and with … reductions in poverty, even after controlling for the likely endogeneity between remittances and developmental outcome variables …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

The aim of the paper is to highlight the variables that determine the propensity to receive remittances and the amount … of remittances by households in rural Bangladesh. The empirical model incorporated the determinants of remittances in … suggested by existing theories of remittances. This paper explores the motives that account for the receipt of remittances …

motivations tied to tenure abroad change the impact of their remittances on venture investment back home. Regression and related … analyses of remittances to 33 developing countries from 2001–2010 indicate that, for migrants residing abroad for less (more …) than a year, remittances significantly increase new business founding rates (venture-funding availability). Our results …

Behavior -- 6 The Influence of the Migration Process on Remittance Behavior -- 7 Network Participation and Remittance Behavior …

of intra-EU remittances as one of the major determinants of migration has been outside the scope of recent research … Migration (NELM) to identify the underlying motivations for remittances. The most important findings are that older men with … remittances can provide a valuable case study of intra-EU private transfer flows. The aims of this study are twofold. On the one …