standardized by the World Bank and is an unusually good panel data set on poverty. I find that remittances have no significant … developing world. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to quantify the effects of this income on recipient countries … Union. I use World Bank poverty data on the region to examine how the rate, depth, and severity of poverty are related to …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …

ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of foreign direct investment (FDI) and theincreasing significance of remittances, both as …, with female employment rate getting the largest impact – relative to males.Remittances are another capital flow that plays … adequately to standard shocks, a remittances shock is introduced to examinethe dynamic response of the representative economy …

economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries … motivated by a core result of the Hecksher-Olin theory which states that open economies can absorb factor supply shocks by …-coping mechanisms since remittances may play an insurance role. I provide evidence that remittances have transformed farming practices …

A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players …. Furthermore, remittances have been identified as a potential catalyst for the financial deepening of receiving countries through …-period financial model of remittances without uncertainty. The formulation acknowledges, on the one hand, the altruism component of …

Savings are one of the important determinants beyond the theories of economic growth. Therefore remittances and foreign … between economic growth, remittances, foreign direct investment inflows and gross domestic savings in Turkey during the period … 1974-2013 by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach. We found that remittances, foreign direct investment and gross …