Based on surveys undertaken between December 1992 and December 1994 in Tonga and Western Samoa on migration and remittances, the authors examine the relationship between migrant remittances, savings and migrant income and correct some misunderstandings of the role of remittances in Pacific...

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological...