International Labor Migration and Remittances in Nepal

International Migration, Remittances and Development

The increasing remittance flows to the labor sending developing countries in recent years have generated huge optimism in the contemporary development discourse about the possibility of development at the grassroots levels which has been an overwhelming challenge for the development actors for decades. However, the realization of such potential proves difficult due to a lack of common understan...

Patterns of remittances and labor migration in the Arab world.

This is a review of the history of labor migration as it has affected the Arab world from the oil boom of the early 1970s to the present, with particular attention to the changing flow of remittances from migrants to their country of origin. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)

Gender, Migration and Remittances

51_10 Representing the second largest source of external funding for developing countries, remittances – money transfers by migrants to their relatives or other persons in countries of origin – are recognized by governments and international organizations as important tools for reducing household poverty and enhancing local development.1 However, it is often implicitly assumed in research, poli...

Migration and Remittances

Remittances, Schooling, and Child Labor

Financial transfers from relatives can have a large impact on the consumption choices made by households. We develop a Stackelbergtype model wherein the parent who remained at the home location decides on the level of education the child acquires depending on the migrant’s remittances and other sources of income. In a repeated game we find equilibria in which the effect of an increase in the re...