Domestic Migrant Remittances In China

Author : International Court of Justice
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213630167

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Domestic Migrant Remittances in China by International Court of Justice Pdf

Remittances are an integral feature of the internal migration process in China. In order to understand the contributions remittances can make to development and the ways in which potential benefits may be enhanced, there are several questions that need to be answered. For instance, how are such funds distributed within and across regions? What channels are used to send money to the rural areas? Who are the people in the rural community receiving the money? Why do some migrants fail to remit? How are remittances spent? And, what are the policy implications of how the money is distributed, remitted and used? This report draws on a rich body of English and Chinese literature to find answers to these questions.

Author : Rachel Murphy,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123135464

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Domestic Migrant Remittances in China by Rachel Murphy,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Remittances are an integral feature of the internal migration process in China. According to a report released by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, in 2005 China's rural migrants sent nearly US$ 30 billion back home to their families. The significance of domestic remittances becomes even more evident when the large numbers of people receiving remittances are taken into account. Owing to the shorter travel distances, the lower cost of labour market entry and the larger volume of domestic migrants relative to international migrants, domestic remittances are likely to benefit more poor people than international money transfers. Clearly, in the case of China, remittances have greatly improved the incomes of rural populations. In order to understand the contributions remittances can make to development and the ways in which potential benefits may be enhanced, there are several questions that need to be answered. For instance, how are such funds distributed within and across regions? What channels are used to send money to the rural areas? Who are the people in the rural community receiving the money? Why do some migrants fail to remit? How are remittances spent? And, what are the policy implications of how the money is distributed, remitted and used? This report draws on a rich body of English and Chinese literature to find answers to these questions. Book jacket.

Author : Rachel Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1280644591

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Domestic Migrant Remittances in China by Rachel Murphy Pdf

Author : Nong Zhu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Access to Finance
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Impact of Remittances on Rural Poverty and Inequality in China by Nong Zhu Pdf

Abstract: Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and inequality in the case of Hubei province using the data of a 2002 household survey. Since remittances are a potential substitute for farm income, the paper presents counterfactual scenarios of what rural income, poverty, and inequality would have been in the absence of migration. The results show that, by providing alternatives to households with lower marginal labor productivity in agriculture, migration leads to an increase in rural income. In contrast to many studies that suggest the increasing share of non-farm income in total income widens inequality, this paper offers support for the hypothesis that migration tends to have egalitarian effects on rural income for three reasons: (i) migration is rational self-selection - farmers with higher agricultural productivities choose to remain in local agricultural production while those with higher expected return in urban non-farm sectors migrate; (ii) poorer households facing binding constraints of land shortage are more likely to migrate; and (iii) the poorest poor benefit disproportionately from remittances.

Author : L. Hoang,B. Yeoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137506863

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Transnational Labour Migration, Remittances and the Changing Family in Asia by L. Hoang,B. Yeoh Pdf

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.

Author : Li Peilin,Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136231032

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China's Internal and International Migration by Li Peilin,Laurence Roulleau-Berger Pdf

One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a significant impact within China. Also, China’s increasing links to other parts of the world have led to a growth in migration to China, most interestingly recently migration from Africa. Based on extensive original research, this book examines a wide range of issues connected to Chinese migration.

Author : Arianne M. Gaetano,Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231127065

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On the Move by Arianne M. Gaetano,Tamara Jacka Pdf

'On the Move' looks at the fate of women in recent rural-urban migration in China. An estimated 100 million people have moved into China's cities since the beginning of economic modernization, often to work for the lowest wages in hazardous occupations.

Author : Nong Zhu,Xubei Luo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931669148

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The Impact of Remittances on Rural Poverty and Inequality in China by Nong Zhu,Xubei Luo Pdf

Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and inequality in the case of Hubei province using the data of a 2002 household survey. Since remittances are a potential substitute for farm income, the paper presents counterfactual scenarios of what rural income, poverty, and inequality would have been in the absence of migration. The results show that, by providing alternatives to households with lower marginal labor productivity in agriculture, migration leads to an increase in rural income. In contrast to many studies that suggest the increasing share of non-farm income in total income widens inequality, this paper offers support for the hypothesis that migration tends to have egalitarian effects on rural income for three reasons: (i) migration is rational self-selection - farmers with higher agricultural productivities choose to remain in local agricultural production while those with higher expected return in urban non-farm sectors migrate; (ii) poorer households facing binding constraints of land shortage are more likely to migrate; and (iii) the poorest poor benefit disproportionately from remittances.

Author : Rachel Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521005302

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How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China by Rachel Murphy Pdf

Her analysis focuses on the human experiences and strategies that precipitate shifts in national and local policies for economic development; she also examines the responses of migrants, nonmigrants, and officials to changing circumstances, obstacles, and opportunities. This pioneering study is rich in original source materials and anecdotes and also offers useful, comparative examples from other developing countries."--Jacket.

Author : Gregor Benton,Huimei Zhang,Hong Liu
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9813274921

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Chinese Migrants Write Home by Gregor Benton,Huimei Zhang,Hong Liu Pdf

Qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances, in the 150 years starting in the 1820s. Archivists in China have collected tens of thousands of qiaopi, drawn from China's major regions of outmigration and of settlement overseas, in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific. The qiaopi cover a crucial and defining period in China's modern history and the history of global migration, which was a key driving force in global social and economic development. In June 2013, the Qiaopi Project was officially registered under UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme, set up in 1992 because of "a growing awareness of the parlous state of preservation of documentary heritage" in the world.

Author : Gregor Benton,Hong Liu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520970540

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Dear China by Gregor Benton,Hong Liu Pdf

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.

Author : Huiyao Wang,Lu Miao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811362569

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China’s Domestic and International Migration Development by Huiyao Wang,Lu Miao Pdf

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China’s domestic and international migration. Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of China’s domestic workforce is shrinking. In response, both national and regional governments in China have been keen to encourage overseas Chinese talents and professionals to return to the country. Meanwhile, the Chinese government has initiated a number of policies to attract international highly-skilled talents and enhance the country’s competitiveness, and some Chinese policies have started attracting foreign talents, who are coming to the country to work, and even to stay. Since Chinese policies, mechanisms, and administration efforts to attract and retain skilled domestic or overseas talents are helping to reshape China’s economy and are significantly affecting the cooperation on migration and talent mobility, these aspects, in addition to being of scholarly and research interest, hold considerable commercial potential.

Author : Neville Mars,Adrian Hornsby
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506529

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The Chinese Dream by Neville Mars,Adrian Hornsby Pdf

"The Chinese Dream is a visual tour de force, both encyclopedic in scope and holistic in approach. Cutting across all levels of scale - from individual to nation - and backed by a truly multi-disciplinary team (encompassing architecture & urban planning, politics, economics, arts & culture, environmental concerns, and sociology) the book synthesizes a vast body of research to tackle the big contemporary questions, and to unpack the paradoxes at the heart of Chinas struggle for change. Bold texts, self-critical design proposals, and thousands of graphics reveal China in all its raucous diversity. This is space as you have never seen it before: brash, outlandish, and very Chinese." .- Prové de leditor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780821363454

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Global Economic Prospects 2006 by Anonim Pdf

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that development countries' remittance receipts totaled 160 billion in 2004, more than twice the size of official aid. This year's edition of Global Economic Prospects focuses on remittances and migration. The bulk of the book covers remittances.

Author : N. Islam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230234253

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Resurgent China by N. Islam Pdf

In this book, top scholars of China from around the world combine to offer deep analyses of recent trends in China's economy and society in order to help understand the country's future. Topics covered include: population, agriculture, internal migration, industry and banking reform, resource constraint and environmental impact.