The Economics of Migrants' Remittances in Bangladesh

International Migration and International Trade
By Sharon Stanton Russell, Michael S. Teitelbaum
This paper reviews the major types of international migration and recent global and regional trends in population movements, as well as conceptual issues and recent trends in the volume of remittance flows.
El Norte Or Bust: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town
By David Stoll
In this unexpected story of a financial bubble and collapse, David Stoll puts a compelling human face on the global economic crisis.
New Perspectives on Remittances from Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
By Germán Zárate-Hoyos
Remittances are not only an additional source of family income, they tend to be the principal source of income, which helps to create a different income structure than is found in non-remittance receiving households (table 3.7).