Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to … undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical … is both correlated with remittances and would only be expected to affect growth through its effect on remittances. The …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the surprising strength of remittances in Bangladesh and other countries in South … Asia and the Philippines in 2009. The empirical analysis suggests that the continued strong growth of remittances in these … of migrant workers from South Asia during 2006–08. The remittances-to-GDP ratio in South Asia and the Philippines are …

in 2002. Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the …This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor …

Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

migration; (ii) higher skill levels of migrating workers have helped to boost remittances; (iii) other imporant determinants of …The flow of workers' remittances to Pakistan has more than quadrupled in the last eight years and it shows no sign of … conclusions are: (i) the growth in the inflow of workers' remittances to Pakistan is in large part due to an increase in worker …

have increased rapidly and are beginning to dwarf aid flows. This paper investigates how remittances affect aid flows, and … how this relationship varies depending on the channel of transmission from remittances to aid. Buoyant remittances could … remittances may dampen donors' incentive to scale up aid. Concurrently, remittances could be positively associated with aid if …

This Selected Issues paper on Samoa reports that remittances are the main source of foreign exchange to the Samoan … economy. In addition to remittances, travel credits also play an important role in the economy. Official transfers are also … significant, and should remain an important source of balance-of-payments support over the medium term. Remittances are relatively …