Implications of migration for adaptation. The evidence on migration and its impacts on adaptive capacity and risk reduction are mixed . Financial remittances help vulnerable households spread risk through better incomes, expanded networks and improved assets such as housing, education and communication technology . Benefits from international remittances across the Asia Pacific region were approximately 276 billion USD in 2017 , and in countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Nepal remittances were ~25% of the national GDP in 2015. However, migration requires a minimum level of resources, and liquidity constraints impede internal migration by the poorest households often rendering them immobile (Ayeb-Karlsson et al., 2020; Maharjan
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