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Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia explores the impact of migration on development in South Asian countries, compiling extensive information on the migration flows and trends, migrant remittances and migration policies. It discusses a number of proposals for effective cooperation on protection of migrant rights and promotion of migration and development linkages.
Through a nuanced look at the role of remittances in bringing about development, it takes cognizance of the fact that remittances alone are unlikely to lift people out of poverty; rather, it is their interplay with other economic, social and cultural factors which determine the scale and type of impact remittances can have on poverty reduction.
The book also examines how migration should be brought into the mainstream of development planning where development must be understood as a dynamic process implying growth, advancement, empowerment and progress, with the goal of enlarging the scope of human choices and creating an environment where citizens can live with dignity and equality.
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Introduction
The 2008 World Migration Report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) argues that temporary migration for work from low-wage developing countries to high-wage developed countries is a ‘win-win-win’ situation—the migrant workers benefit from higher wages in the destination countries, the destination countries benefit from more employment and higher GDP and lastly, the countries of origin benefit from employment for unemployment workers, remittances and the contributions by returnee migrants (IOM, 2008: 92–93). The literature further argues that the first two wins are well supported. The strong desire of migrants to migrate to higher-wage countries shows the benefits of migration and research findings show that the presence of migrants helps to expand economic activities, although it slightly lowers wages in ...
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