Migration and Development

True or False: International migration is related with development in two main ways.

• True

• False

Check the correct statements.

• Disparities in development can be incentive to migrate.

• Development does not cause migration, it is just a result.

• International migration impacts on development in origin countries.

• Migration is not a cause of migration, just a result.

Fill in the blank: .... refers to money sent home by migrants abroad.

• Remittance

• Development

• Emigration

• Finance

Which ones are ways that migrants send home money?

• Migrants taking home cash when they return for visits.

• Sending home money with friends or relatives.

• Entrepreneurs and traders who travel regularly to and from home carry money back for migrants for a small commission, like mulas in Cuba.

• Hawilaad system.

True or False: According to the World Bank, global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown.

• True

• False

True or False: In developing countries remittances are the least important source of external funding.

• True

• False

Which one is the top country of remittance recipient in 2019?

• Mexico

• India

• USA

• Ukraine

Which country is the top recipient of remittances in terms of percentage of GDP?

• Mexico

• Samoa

• Turkey

• Tonga

What are the 3-Ts?

• transportation-tourism-telecommunications

• tourism-television-technology

• telecommunications-technology-teleport

• television-tourism-technology

What cannot be said about social remittances?

• The term is particularly associated with the research of Peggy Levitt.

• People send home just money.

• People can transmit new ideas, social and cultural practices, and codes of conduct.

• Internet has opened a new platform of share of ideas.