Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development

Autor:	Michael A. Clemens, Timothy Ogden
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Public economics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Population Payment Investment (macroeconomics) Human capital Financial management Economics Asset (economics) Economic system business education Human resources International development media_common
Zdroj:	SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN:	1556-5068
DOI:	10.2139/ssrn.2457148
Popis:	It is time to fundamentally reframe the research agenda on remittances payments and development. We describe many of the research questions that now dominate the literature and why they lead us to uninformative answers. We propose reasons why these questions dominate the most important of which is that researchers tend to view remittances as states do (as windfall income) rather than as families do (as returns on investment). Migration is among other things a strategy for financial management in poor households: location is an asset migration an investment. This shift of perspective leads to much more fruitful research questions that have been relatively neglected. We suggest 12 such questions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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