On the Role of Urban-to-Rural Remittances in Rural Development

Oded Stark

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 1980, vol. 16, issue 3, 369-374

Abstract: In this paper I present a new approach to rural-to-urban migration in developing countries. This approach sheds new light on the role of urban-to-rural remittances in bringing about technological change in the agricultural sector of these countries. At the core of the new approach is a utility maximizing family that by means of the migration of a family member bypasses the constraints on technological change imposed by lack of credit and risk. The paper discusses how to bring the new approach to the data.

Keywords: Rural-to-urban migration; Urban-to-rural remittances; Utility maximizing family; Rural-to-urban remittances; Agricultural development; Technological change in agriculture; Credit constraint; Risk constraint; Credit and insurance markets; Fungibility of urban-to rural remittances; Inequality of the rural income distribution; Usage and interpretation of existing evidence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D13 D15 D19 D7 D81 G11 G23 J43 O12 O13 O15 O33 Q12 Q14 Q16 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388008421764

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