Remittances and Development: Lessons from Latin America

Maurizio Bussolo, Maria Martinez Peria, César Calderón, Yira Mascaró, Mette E. Nielsen, Pablo Acosta, J. Humberto López, Çaglar Özden, Yoko Niimi, Luis Molina Sánchez, Florencia Moizeszowicz, Emanuel Salinas, Pablo Fajnzylber, Mario Guadamillas, Massimo Cirasino and Pedro Olinto

No 353 in IDB Publications (Books) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: 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. This publication belongs to the Latin American Development Forum Series (LADF), sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the World Bank.

Keywords: Latin American Development Forum; LADF; household behavior; dutch disease; conditional cash transfers; financial regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780821368701
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