International migration and development in mexican communities
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International migration and development in Mexican communities.
The theoretical and empirical literature generally regards international migration as producing a cycle of dependency and stunted development in sending communities. Most migrants' earnings are spent on consumption; few funds are channeled into productive investment. We argue that this view is misleading because it ignores the conditions under which productive investment is likely to be possibl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/2061875