individuals and communities, migration and remittances alone can remove more structural development constraints. Despite their … development potential, migrants and remittances can neither be blamed for a lack of development nor be expected to trigger take …

structure of the labor force, cause labor shortages, and affect fiscal policy, but it can also generate remittances and other …

This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …

; (ii) providing remittances that fund start-ups in their countries of origin and (iii) returning entrepreneurial skills to …