undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to … is both correlated with remittances and would only be expected to affect growth through its effect on remittances. The …

potential motives behind workers' remittances. It shows that the level of workers' remittances depends on how great are their …. The model is applied to Morocco using co-integration techniques. The paper then discusses the stability of remittances in …

Remittances to India have been growing rapidly since 1991, making it one of the largest recipients of remittances. This … paper analyzes the determinants of remittances to India and finds that their growth over time can be explained by the … increase in migration and total earnings of the migrants. Remittances are also affected by the economic environment in source …

swamps remittances, this paper finds that remittances, which are a stable, private transfer, have a direct poverty mitigating … remittances, poverty and financial development. The paper posits that formalizing such flows can serve as an effective access … receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA …

The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker … migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …

This paper identifies a remittances channel that transmits exogenous shocks, such as business cycles in remittance … Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, three types of results emerge. First, remittances appear to be strongly … procyclical vis-à-vis sending country income. Second, remittances tend to be spent on consumption of both imported and …

This paper analyzes the determinants of remittances to Tonga. The results indicate that macroeconomic conditions in … remitting countries and exchange rate fluctuations influence remittances. In particular, remittances growth falls when the … analysis also finds that the influence of these determinants varies with the recipients of remittances, with remittances to non …

The paper investigates the determinants and the macroeconomic role of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa, assembling the … most comprehensive dataset available so far on remittances in the region and incorporating data on the diaspora. It finds … that remittances are larger for countries with a larger diaspora or when the diaspora is located in wealthier countries …

estimates a gravity model for workers' remittances. We find that most of the variation in bilateral remittance flows can be … commonly believed. Most strikingly, remittances do not seem to increase in the wake of a natural disaster and appear aligned … with the business cycle in the home country, suggesting that remittances may not play a major role in limiting …