about the impact of international migration and remittances on the economic and human development of migrants’ source … migration and remittances. First, governments should extend absentee voting rights to overseas citizens. In addition …This paper reviews the relationship between international migration and human development. First, it reviews what we …

world’s highest ratio of remittances to their GDP. During last few years numerous studies focused on migration issues within …This paper assesses recent migration trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Within the last decade … motivate this large-scale migration? What are the current trends in the labour migration in the CIS? What are the short …

individuals and communities, migration and remittances alone can remove more structural development constraints. Despite their …This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be … considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However, any meaningful understanding of migration needs to …

the connection between migration and its wider social and economic contexts, looking at how politics shape migration … policy and in turn, how migration affects policy making. The paper discusses at length recent issues of overseas labor … migration, particularly on the apparently embedded inertia within the policy making processes. The continuing incidences of …

This paper reviews the treatment of migration in Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs), conducted in 14 different … countries. The analysis suggests that for the very poor, migration is most often rural to rural and rural to urban and not … across borders. The drivers of migration are context specific, but are generally related to the pursuit of greater livelihood …

migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban … migration have transformed the demographic profile of Bolivian society. The new middle third is younger, more bilingual and … quality and informal insurance mechanisms that make migration more costly. Third, increases in human development can be …