This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants'
remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of …

The movement of labor out of agriculture is a universal concomitant of economic
modernization and growth. Traditional migration models overlook many potential …

The problem of high savings and low consumption of Chinese rural households has long
been a source of concern. The popularity of mobile payments may help alleviate this …

Purpose Agriculture and cultivation firms are facing severe competition in the saturated
market. Due to the characteristics of heavy assets, low investment return, long cycle and …

Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the
relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper …

Purpose In this paper, the heterogeneity of the linkages among financial development,
productivity and growth across income groups is emphasized. Design/methodology …

This paper assesses the effect of the steadily growing remittance flows to sub-Saharan
Africa. Though the region receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to …

Rural-to-urban migration is an inherent part of the economic development process, yet it is
relatively understudied in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we attempt to describe the …

China's rapid development and urbanization have induced large numbers of rural residents
to migrate from their homes to urban areas in search of better job opportunities. Parents …

As an important representation of the evolution of the rural human–land relationship in the
process of urban–rural transformation development, labor migration between rural and …