This article addresses the question whether the substantial financial flows received by emigration countries contributed to domestic financial development in peripheral Europe before 1914. We quantify a sizable and significant relation between remittances and measures of financial development...

This article addresses the question whether the substantial financial flows received by emigration countries contributed to domestic financial development in peripheral Europe before 1914. We quantify a sizable and significant relation between remittances and measures of financial development...

This paper addresses the question whether the substantial financial flows received by emigration countries in the four decades running up to World War I contributed to domestic financial development in peripheral Europe. We quantify a sizable and significant relation between remittances and...

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Executive summary -- Introduction: Facts, perceptions, reactions -- Global governance and the regulation of migration flows -- Immigrant integration in the South -- Emigration, labour markets and development -- Rethinking the governance of international...