Outsourcing welfare : how the money immigrants send home contributes to stability in developing countries / Roy Germano.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190862879 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Emigrant remittances -- Developing countries | Developing countries -- Economic policy
Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190862848DDC classification: 332.04246091724 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: In order to meet the International Monetary Fund's debt-reduction guidelines, many developing country governments have had to retrenth their social welfare systems. This text is about how remittances - the hundreds of billions of dollars international migrants send to family members in their home countries each year - are helping to fill this welfare gap and prevent civil unrest in developing countries. Looking particularly at Mexico, with supplemental cases in Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the author argues that counting on expatriates to send money home has become a de facto social welfare policy in many cash-strapped developing countries whose economic policies are guided by neoliberal orthodoxy.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In order to meet the International Monetary Fund's debt-reduction guidelines, many developing country governments have had to retrenth their social welfare systems. This text is about how remittances - the hundreds of billions of dollars international migrants send to family members in their home countries each year - are helping to fill this welfare gap and prevent civil unrest in developing countries. Looking particularly at Mexico, with supplemental cases in Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the author argues that counting on expatriates to send money home has become a de facto social welfare policy in many cash-strapped developing countries whose economic policies are guided by neoliberal orthodoxy.
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