Remittances and Development
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Remittances and Development

Lessons from Latin America

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Remittances and Development

Lessons from Latin America

About this book

Workers' remittances have become a major source of financing for developing countries and are especially important in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is at the top of the ranking of remittance receiving regions in the world. While there has been a recent surge in analytical work on the topic, this book is motivated by the large heterogeneity in migration and remittance patterns across countries and regions, and by the fact that existing evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean is restricted to only a few countries, such as Mexico and El Salvador. Because the nature of the phenomenon varies across countries, its development impact and policy implications are also likely to differ in ways that are still largely unknown. This book helps fill the gap by exploring, in the specific context of Latin America and Caribbean countries, some of the main questions faced by policymakers when trying to respond to increasing remittances flows. The book relies on cross-country panel data and household surveys for 11 Latin American countries to explore the development impact of remittance flows along several dimensions: growth, poverty, inequality, schooling, health, labor supply, financial development, and real exchange rates.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Latin American Development Forum Series
  5. Other Titles in the Latin American Development Forum Series
  6. About the Contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Abbreviations
  10. 1 The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America
  11. 2 How Important Are Remittances in Latin America?
  12. 3 Migration and Remittances in Latin America: Patterns and Determinants
  13. 4 Do Remittances Lower Poverty Levels in Latin America?
  14. 5 Remittances and Household Behavior: Evidence for Latin America
  15. 6 Do Remittances Affect Recipient Countries’ Financial Development?
  16. 7 Remittances, the Real Exchange Rate, and the Dutch Disease Phenomenon
  17. 8 Do Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Crowd Out Private Transfers?
  18. 9 Facilitating Remittances Flows and Security in the System
  19. 10 Remittances and Growth: The Role of Complementary Policies
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover