Remittances : the new development mantra?

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Migration Remittances and Development: A Review of Global Evidence (2006, background): “Kapur and McHale (2003), Kapur (2004) reviews the effects of the economic downturn in Ecuador in the late 1990s on the increase in remittances received.”
Mobility and Human Development (2009, background): “However, the fact that migration tends to be a selective process means that most remittances do not tend to flow to the poorest members of communities (CDR 2002; cf. Schiff 1994), nor to the poorest countries (cf. Kapur 2003; Kapur and McHale 2003).”
Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of Literature (2007, background): “The shares of remittances to GDP tend to be rather high in typical emigration countries such as Mexico, Morocco or the Philippines, and even higher in some small countries, especially island economies in the Caribbean, the Pacific or the Atlantic (for example, Cape Verde) (Kapur 2003:10).”
Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical? (2011, unknown): “disaster. Kapur (2005) finds that they go up in response to an economic downturn.”