This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided … between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the … timing of remittances. The results from selected empirical studies show that a mixture of individualistic (e.g., altruism …

Capital Flight -- 7. Remittances -- 8. Corruption & the Informal Economy in Jamaica -- 9. A Growth Comparison of Mauritius and …

part of the labour force from the emigration countries led to a significant flow of remittances. Being viewed as the main … gain of the loss of labour force, remittances are important at macroeconomic level to the extent in which they bring in the … of a country according to the way in which remittances received are used by emigrants. This study analyses the impact …