The Impact of Remittances in Developing Countries- Saving, Investment and School Enrollment

ISBN-13: 9783836427593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 108 str.

Juan J. Molina

Opis

Remittances (what migrants send back to their home countries) are importantnot only for the families who receive them but also for the poorest developingcountries. This book develops an Overlapping Generations model ofhouseholds with residences in two countries to explore how remittances maybe saved for retirement, used to finance investment in housing, schooling, orfor consumption. The book uses the estimation framework of Gruben andMcLeod (1998), and Mody and Murshid (2002) to study the impact of remittanceson Gross National Savings, Investment, and on school enrollments.The results appear to be consistent with the model as, for example, it isshown that Remittances positively-although differently-affect the primaryand secondary school enrollment of boys and girls. The conclusion discussesthe new ways of measuring remittances and explores how "social remittances"can have an impact in local community development. Students of developmentissues and policies will find the topic of remittances interesting andappealing; those interested in gender issues in developing countries will findthe results presented in this book both encouraging and challenging.