-Saharan and North Africa, as well as the economic and some social implications of those movements, are examined. Existing analyses …

This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for … ability of sub-Saharan African countries to harness remittances for development. Besides remitting home for altruistic reasons …

We estimate a behavioural model of household’s remittances to investigate to what extent the level of financial …

This study investigates the influence of migrant remittances on two dimensions of the financial sector, namely, size … and efficiency in a sample of 94 non-OECD economies. Evidence suggests that migrant remittances contribute to increasing … the size and efficiency of the financial sector. The study, in addition, examines the impact of remittances on financial …

receiving economies. Based on a sample of 82 developing countries and after factoring in the endogeneity of remittances …

remittances is contributing positively to the development of the financial system of the country. Our results suggest that … remittances have a significant positive effect on financial development. However, financial sector's development is neutral in its … effect on the inflow of remittances. …

remittances in a panel of 41 Sub-Saharan African countries during the period 1970–2007. Our main finding is that on average … rainfall shocks have an insignificant contemporaneous effect on remittances. However, the marginal effect is significantly … significant negative effect on remittances, while at low levels of credit to GDP the effect of rainfall on remittances is …

-sectional dependence and individual effects are controlled for, remittances to sub-Saharan Africa as a whole increase the underlying real …This paper investigates the effect of remittance inflows on real exchange rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using …

This paper empirically examines how financial development influences the impact of remittances on GDP growth volatility … impact of remittances on GDP growth volatility is nonlinear and changes over time and across countries in function of … financial development. More precisely, a high level of financial development helps remittances to have a high stabilizing impact …