Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing
country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still …

Remittances are often said to be the most tangible and least controversial link between
migration and development (Russell 1992; Ratha 2007). Remittance flows to developing …

Nepal is one of the highest recipients of remittances (percentage of GDP) in the world. For a
small land-locked economy battered by a decade-long Maoist insurgency (1996–2006) …

A puzzle in the recently stagnated economy of Jamaica is that high rates of unemployment
have persisted even when real wages have been increasing. This paper examines aspects …

Over the past few decades international workers' remittances have significantly contributed
to the foreign exchange reserves of the developing countries. While these household level …

As one of the world's largest recipients of remittances, the Philippines received remittances
roughly 12% of its gross domestic product in 2008. Remittances have become the single …

We examine the labour supply effect of remittances in the Republic of Haiti, the prime
international remittances recipient country in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) …

The labor diaspora of Pakistani workers remains persistent and has become more prevalent.
The number of workers Pakistan exports to other countries annually depicts a general …

The paper studies symptoms of Dutch disease in the Pakistani economy arising from
international remittances. An IV Bayesian analysis is carried out to take care of the …

Drawing on governmentality debates, I argue that skilled members of the Jamaican diaspora
are becoming important actors in an ongoing development strategy to extend the rationality …