. While most papers on the impacts of migration on development focus on remittances and low-skilled migration, we emphasize …

emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows …

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances. The rise of mobile banking in Africa, however, differs substantially … offers for mobile remittances vary geographically. The services provided do not always meet the needs of remittance senders …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth … the variance inflation factors (VIF). In our case the variance inflation factor for remittances depends on the use of a … of remittances is positive. …

. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth … shows permanent effects, which are positive only for China. In the poor countries, investment, remittances, savings, tax …

We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … money on education when remittances come in; in the richer sample they raise less taxes and spend less on education in … response to remittances but this is almost completely compensated by the positive response of expenditure on education to …

indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth, investment and savings, net foreign debt … more remittances and emigration, a lower labour force growth, higher shares of GDP for saving, tax revenues, public … expenditure on education and investment, and higher literacy. However, all these stabilizing forces through remittances and …

flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … (2000) for which aid is about 9.5% of GDP. The partial effects in these regressions are as follows. Remittances enhance net …

Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two … remittances in 2003. The countries with per capita income below $1200 benefit most from remittances in the long run because they … have the largest impact of remittances on savings. Their remittances account for about 2% of the steady-state level of GDP …