Migrant remittances are significant but remain relatively costly to send. Policymakers have argued that fintech …

subnational level. Using shocks to source country remittance outflows, we show that exogenous increases in remittances accessible … to the Sri Lankan subdistricts over the period of the conflict. Our main quantitative finding is that remittances had a … military strength of the Tamil Tigers than of the government. Remittances that favored the Tamil Tiger rebels may have …

Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200 …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …

Is the persistently high fertility in West Africa today rooted in the decades of forced labor migration under colonial … rule? We study the case of Burkina Faso, considered the largest labor reservoir in West Africa by the French colonial … findings contribute to the debate on the origins of family institutions and preferences, often mentioned to explain West Africa …