Literature Review on Remittances Utilization in Migrants Home Countries
Literature Review on Remittances Utilization in Migrants Home Countries

Author(s): Eugene Agoh, Vilmantė Kumpikaitė-Valiūnienė
Subject(s): Economy, Labor relations, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Remittances; Migration; Remittance’s utilization;
Summary/Abstract: The Philippines is the highest labour exporter among its neighbours in East and South-East Asia (Pratt, 2018). Consequently, diaspora Filipinos send the equivalent of 34 billion USD as remittances from around the world making the Philippines the third highest remittance receiver in the world just behind India and Mexico (Bank, 2019). These remittances are utilized in various ways proven to positively impact the migrant’s receiving households. Conclusively, remittances play an important role in Philippines households as shown in 17 papers, which focused on evaluating the positive and negative sides of remittances; to the Philippines households are highlighted. Though the case of the Philippines is unique, several other studies show similar results in countries such as Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Vietnam, Ghana, South Africa, Lithuania, Germany, Estonia, Poland etc. This wide variety of remittances utilization motivated this literature review.

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