interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions … remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 107 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. We find that remittances are … as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic …

Levitt’s ground-breaking concept of social remittances has inspired many empirical studies in migration research, yet … remittances are have multiplied, posing the risk of reducing the term to little more than a catchphrase. To address this issue …, this paper undertakes a systematic review of various conceptualisations of social remittances. We identify four primary …

Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of remittances globally and has substantial remittance inflow fluctuations … macroeconomic impacts of emigrant remittances in Pakistan using a vector autoregressive estimation framework and investigated the …