In this paper, I measure the importance of remittances and financial development for developing countries. I estimate … channel for remittances to affect economic growth. The index brings together information from existing measures, reflecting … the more financial development in a country, the smaller becomes the impact of remittances on economic growth and it can …

This paper examines the behavior of remittances over the business cycle and their potential to act as a stabilizer … remittances depends on the motives to remit. Second, remittances are less volatile than other foreign currency flows but do not … appear to systemically co-move with business cycle fluctuations. Third, remittances are relatively stable even during …

The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 … determinants of remittances originating from the United States for a diverse set of approximately 3,800 households with at least … 0.20-0.30. Remittances are more responsive to earnings in households with more adult women relative to men. …

How remittances contribute to the economies of remittance-receiving developing countries is a global issue. Considering … Nepal as a highly remittance-receiving country, this paper primarily examines the impact of remittances on economic growth … the effects of remittances on economic growth. The bound test approach of cointegration and the error correction model …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …. -- remittances ; return migration ; Maghreb countries …

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants …. -- remittances ; return migration ; Maghreb countries …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual ….6% respectively. -- remittances ; poverty ; inequality ; Ethiopia …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of … remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants …

Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values … over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …. -- remittances ; portfolio motives ; Spain …

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … insurance. -- remittances ; insurance ; risk management strategies …