Migrant Remittances and (Under)Development in Mexico

By L. Binford. 2003

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Remittances, financial development and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from a PMG-ARDL approach (2019, background): “Remittances make receiving countries dependent on the sending countries as well as making receivers of remittances dependent on the sender (Binford, 2003).”
Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective (2010, background): “…(for review articles, see Lewis, 1986; Lipton, 1980), corroborating the hypothesis that migration contributes to the ‘‘development of underdevelopment’’ instead of the reverse (Almeida, 1973; Rhoades, 1979; Lipton, 1980; Reichert, 1981; Rubenstein, 1992; Binford, 2003 Keely and Tran, 1989:501).”
A Model for Managed Migration? Re-Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (2012, background): “The role of these remittances in promoting sustainable development is still not conclusive, and the potential benefits in terms of skills acquisition are even less clear (Binford, 2003; Carvajal, 2008).”
Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “…the hypothesis that migration sustains or even reinforces problems of underdevelopment instead of the reverse.3 These “migration pessimists” have argued that migration provokes the withdrawal of human capital 3 Almeida 1973; Lipton 1980; Reichert 1981; Rhoades 1979; Rubenstein 1992; Binford 2003.”