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Policies focused on remittances and investment

Policies focused on remittances and investment

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Las explicaciones sobre por qué los migrantes retornan a sus paí-ses de origen tienden a centrarse en factores de nivel micro o macro: desde considerar la decisión como una elección individual (la perspectiva de la economía neoclásica) ó como una estrategia familiar (el punto de vista de la nueva economía de la migración laboral) hasta asumir que e...

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... a longer treatment of the differences between policy output, policy implementation, and policy outcomes (i.e. the results of both implementation and other factors affecting the target population simultaneously) and the importance of clarifying the researchers' focus when analyzing any policy related to migration, see (Helbling et al., 2013). Table 2 shows the economic policies that LAC countries have adopted to foster remittances or investment. On the aggregate level, the development of investment schemes for emigrants in the states of origin and the improvement of banking channels for remittances are the two policies most broadly adopted, while controls on remittance fees and state-led programs to foster co-development through remittances only exist in two countries: Mexico and Guatemala. ...