effect on these economies. The paper estimates the impact of remittances on output stability for countries that are dependent … find robust evidence that remittances have a negative effect on output growth volatility of recipient countries. This … result supports the notion that remittance flows are a stabilizing influence on output. Thus, the fall in remittances …

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 …

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By … including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is … problems associated with remittances preclude crosscountry empirical investigation, the paper illustrates these findings with …

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 …

have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and … how this relationship varies depending on the channel of transmission from remittances to aid. Buoyant remittances could … remittances may dampen donors' incentive to scale up aid. Concurrently, remittances could be positively associated with aid if …

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 investigates the impact of workers’ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient … remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country’s risk premium to remittance flows. Panel …

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 …