Remittances and International Development

This is a first of its kind book which examines the remittances in the two largest corridors in the World: India-Saudi Arabia & Mexico-U.S.A.

Sabith Khan is the Program Director (Master of Public Policy and Administration) and Assistant Professor in the School of Management, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A. Daisha M. Merritt is the Associate Department Chair of the Department of Management and Technology in the College of Business at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide, U.S.A.

1. Introduction : Purpose of the book. 2. Motivations to send and receive: Background. 3. Growth of Money Transfers : Theorizing technology, distance and money. 4. Remittances by the numbers : How much is sent and where. 5. Policy and remittances: Human needs and the shaping of practice with policy. 6. Discourse of remittances: How it shapes praxis in India, USA and Mexico. 7. Case study: India as a receiver. 8. Remittances and the Persian Gulf nations. 9. Remittances as subaltern giving: The case of Mexico. 10. Remittances as 'soft power'? : Examining the power of money-flows between communities and nation-states. 11. Conclusion: Forces shaping the future