This paper identifies a remittances channel that transmits exogenous shocks, such as business cycles in remittance …-sending countries, to the public finances of remittance-receiving countries. Using panel data for remittance-receiving countries in the … 2010 virtually all receiving countries benefitted from an upturn in remittance-driven tax revenues. …

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have …

Aid has been for decades an important source of financing for developing countries, but more recently remittance flows …

Remittance flows appear to be falling worldwide for the first time in decades as a result of the ongoing financial … turmoil. It is suspected that the drop in remittance income into developing and emerging markets will have a destabilizing … result supports the notion that remittance flows are a stabilizing influence on output. Thus, the fall in remittances …

This paper creates the first dataset of bilateral remittance flows for a limited set of developing countries and … estimates a gravity model for workers' remittances. We find that most of the variation in bilateral remittance flows can be …