The growth in the number and in the size of remittances and the stability of these monetary transfers have made them a …

by the global financial crisis, principally through reductions in remittances, aid flows and FDI. It argues that the …

This study investigates the extent to which Mexican workers’ remittances are affected from the recent housing market … has a negative and statistically significant impact on Mexican remittances. At the regional level, foreclosure rates of … the South and the West have a significant impact on workers’ remittances in the same negative direction. However …

-sectional dependence and individual effects are controlled for, remittances to sub-Saharan Africa as a whole increase the underlying real …

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is …

assess all available sources of financing (ODA, OOF, private investment, domestic resources, and remittances), identify …

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 …

, private investment, domestic resources, and remittances), the Viet Nam country pilot study explores the challenges of …