This paper examines the potential of digital financial services (Fintech) to increase the development impact of remittances. We discuss both household and macroeconomic perspectives of the nexus of digital financial services, remittances, and financial inclusion. Using our findings, we identify regulatory gaps in dealing with digital financial services to enhance the development impact of remittances. Political and social remittances, as well as collective remittances, and the role of diaspora networks are also considered. We then examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic before elucidating major research questions in the political economy of migrant transfers.
@unpublished{doi:10.17170/kobra-202012112503,
author ={Metzger, Martina and Pédussel Wu, Jennifer},
title ={Moving Minds and Money: The Political Economy of Migrant Transfers},
keywords ={330 and Entwicklung and Finanztechnologie and Migration and Überweisung},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/},
language ={en},
year ={2020-12}
}