Remittances, Liquidity Constraints and Human Capital Investments in Ecuador

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1143-1154

  Calero, Carla ^a   Bedi, Arjun S ^b,c   Sparrow, Robert ^b,c  

^a Ministerio de Coordinación de Desarrollo Social SIISE   (Ecuador)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecuador; human capital; Latin America; migration; remittances; trans national networks

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; HUMAN CAPITAL; INVESTMENT; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS REMITTANCE; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POPULATION MIGRATION; VULNERABILITY;

ECUADOR; LATIN AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 67349119989     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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