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 …

This paper seeks to enrich the field of research on the topic of the impact of remittances on long-run economic growth …–2014, we studied the interaction between remittances and the level of economic development, as well as its impact on long …-run economic growth-because the impact of remittances could be influenced by the development level of the receiving countries. In …