This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent less at the margin on one important investment good -- housing -- compared with …

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using … effect on reducing poverty in Indonesia. Second, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent more at the margin on one key …, households receiving remittances in 2007 spent less at the margin on one important investment good -- housing -- compared with …

role of remittances in increasing household consumption and investment and thereby their potential for rebalancing economic … growth and creating long-term human and capital investment. The results indicate that remittances negatively influence the … households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We … Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) of 2012. We find that remittances have a positive impact on household savings and … tend to use remittances productively, with receiving households increasing their investments in human and physical capital …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …

A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the …

While a sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households, we have a …. Using data from Mexico, we find that both the size and the uncertainty of remittances raise asset accumulation among …