ABSTRACT
Focus in this chapter is purely on the quantitative aspects of giving, looking carefully at the numbers. We will focus on the three countries of interest: India, the U.S.A., and Mexico. While we do know that remittances are roughly three times the size of international development aid (World Bank), we seek to contextualize these numbers in the changes ongoing around us. While the quantity of remittances varies across time and location, there are certain trends that have emerged in the past few years. We seek to contextualize these debates and make sense of how they have evolved. What are the causes of these changes and how might they change in the future? We answer these questions in this chapter.
