start up entrepreneurial activities upon returning home. Remittances sent by migrants while abroad also boost household …

interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

classical theory but the results support the "New Economics of Migration" approach in the explanation of simultanous return …