interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how to manage their macroeconomic effects, and how to harness their … remittances on recipient economies. In broad terms, the findings of this paper tend to confirm the main benefit cited in the … microeconomic literature: remittances improve households' welfare by lifting families out of poverty and insuring them against …

receives only a small portion of the total recorded remittances to developing countries, and the volume of aid flows to SSA … 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 …

classical theory but the results support the "New Economics of Migration" approach in the explanation of simultanous return …

economic indicators of households such as remittances received, quality of housing, possession of consumer durables, etc. On …

Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released …

remittances on the economy of a country in various ways, as a source of external financing, contributing to the growth and … receives every year un important volume of remittances, but, at present with a preponderant role in the consumption. …

, is also the largest exporter of skilled workers in the world. The present research uses a zero-altered negative binomial … issues to assess the impact of remittances on labour market outcomes. The results in terms of a decline of labour supply in … the presence of remittances are in line with those observed thus far in the literature. However, the impact of …

intervention on the value of migrant remittances sent. Our results exclude that the remittance effect we identify is a simple …