migration, remittances and development in africa
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MIGRATION, REMITTANCES AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. Yves CHARBIT Professor at Paris Descartes University Director of the CEPED. 1. AN IMPORTANT ISSUE Do remittances contribute to rural development?. 1. A brief summary of the migration situation in Africa - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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MIGRATION,REMITTANCES AND
DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Yves CHARBIT Professor at Paris Descartes University
Director of the CEPED1
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AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
Do remittances contribute to rural development?
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1. A brief summary of the migration situation in Africa
2. The macro-economic dimension
(aggregates and indicators)
3. The micro-economic dimension
(family poverty)
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I. A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE MIGRATION SITUATION
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SOUTH-NORTH or SOUTH-SOUTH
MIGRATION?
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TWO-WAY MOBILITY
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
INCREASED BY
INTERNAL MIGRATION
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AFRICA IS UNDERGOING RAPID URBANISATION
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Total population x 3.3 in 45 years
Urban population x 10 in 45 years
The rural exodus:80 million West Africans
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PROJECTIONS FOR WEST AFRICA
15 % city-dwellers in 1960 60 % city-dwellers in 2030
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Factors offsetting the imbalance?
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A less isolated rural worldMobile phone subscribers in West Africa
Fixed line subscribers
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II. THE MACRO-ECONOMIC DIMENSION
(AGGREGATES AND INDICATORS)
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Are remittances a source of local wealth and development?
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THE PROBLEM ASSOCIATED WITH DATA
1. No shortage of case studies on remittances to the rural world
2. But no global balance sheet available 3. Analysis by analogy (Charbit, 2009)
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Two indicators:
• Remittances per inhabitant• GDP per inhabitant
What is the correlation?
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A fairly low correlation
R2 = + 0.33 (for 19 countries)
Interpretation?
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A result which is both
predictable and desirable
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III. REMITTANCES, FAMILIES, LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
(MICRO-ECONOMIC DIMENSION)
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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Situation:
• Remittances mean that health, education and housing costs can be met
• Thus benefiting the families, but also the rural communities
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CHANGE IN FAMILY
STRUCTURES
Male migration:
almost 40% of women are heads of households in Africa (Lesotho)
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A PROBLEM NOT SUFFICIENTLY STUDIED
Feminisation of poverty connected to emigration?
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Female heads of household suffer serious disadvantages
• Illiteracy.• Widowhood (or youth in the case of the
husband’s migration). • Non-working, or involved in insecure, low-
productivity work.• More dependents and non-working members.
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More acute poverty?
In Senegal, female households are less exposed to cash poverty than those headed by a man (Charbit and Kébé, 2007)
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Two accumulative factors
1/ Income from migrants is higherin households headed by women
• emigration of the husband to Europe or the USA
• internal emigration in the other households
2/ Mobilisation of social networks
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IV. CONCLUSION
Remittances contribute to development:
• at the macro-economic level (country) • at the micro-economic level (families)
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• They exacerbate the urban/rural imbalance
among many other factors,
• all connected to structural development, the urbanisation of Africa
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Yves CHARBIT
Professor at Paris Descartes University
Director of the CEPED 30