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The world of development finance that I inhabit touts the rocketing of migrant remittances in the last decade or so as good news, but in reality the motives and impacts of migration are more complex than economists with a penchant for reductionism tend to allow.
The flow though varies across countries, but the determinants of migration are more or less the same.
The expectation is that children who live in areas more prone to international migration are more likely to receive remittances.
Mendola (2008) finds that agricultural households engaging in international migration are more likely to invest in high-yield seed technology as compared to households with internal migrants or no migrants.
Those planning short-term migration are more positive towards their home country and more negative towards opportunities abroad.
They also suggest that social, behavioral, and demographic factors (including international migration) are more important than viral genetic variation in determining the global prevalence of different genotypes.
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Although much is known about how birds migrate, insect migration is more mysterious, says ecologist Martin Wikelski of Princeton University in New Jersey.
It shows, Ms. Winter said, "that to have a successful migration is more than just getting there".
Cuban authorities contend that the migration is more economic than political and is fueled by Washington's policy of rewarding Cubans who enter the United States illegally.
The truth is that migration is more often a gamble played for high stakes; a decision only vindicated if the gambler reaches a situation better than that they left behind.
If nothing else, their migration was more interesting than anything going on in liberal circles, for there's nothing like dismantling an orthodoxy to bring out the liveliest prose.
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