Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “Especially in contexts where households face highincome volatility and shocks otherwise, remittances can also favour income smoothing and as such make households more attractive borrowers (Mohapatra et al. 2011).”
Migration and Remittances: Recent Developments and Outlook (2015, background): “Mobile money transfer services such as MPesa have transformed the landscape for domestic remittances in several African countries (Ratha et al. 2011).”
Africa's Money in Africa (2013, methodology): “This supposition is based on the understanding that the quality of institutions in a given society has a bearing on the behaviours of economic agents and economic outcomes (North, 1991; La Porta et al., 1999; Williamson, 2000; Acemoglu et al., 2001; Osabuohien and Efobi, 2011).”