This paper investigates the effect of international remittances and migration on household welfare in Ethiopia. We … before and after the households began receiving remittances, the study sheds light on the changes in welfare associated with … international migration and remittances. The results reveal that remittances have a significant impact on a welfare variable that …

Do remittances and social assistance have different impacts on household expenditure patterns While two separate … strands of literature have looked at how social assistance or remittances have been spent, few studies have compared them … fungible, we find that social assistance and remittances have different impacts on expenditure patterns having controlled for …

flows as a share of the labour force and GDP per capita growth and also for all their regressors including remittances and … (2000) for which aid is about 9.5% of GDP. The partial effects in these regressions are as follows. Remittances enhance net … immigration, savings, public expenditure on education and growth, but reduce tax revenues, all as a share of GDP. Net immigration …

Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money …, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances. The rise of mobile banking in Africa, however, differs substantially … offers for mobile remittances vary geographically. The services provided do not always meet the needs of remittance senders …

How responsive are remittances to various disasters, both natural and human-made? And would remittances be affected by … over the period 1980 to 2007, we find that remittances are slow to respond to natural disasters, unresponsive to outbreaks … incomes, migration stocks, exchange rates, and the banking system. The relative persistence of remittances suggests that it is …

deprivation in infrastructure and the multi-dimensional index, while we find no significant results for remittances sent to the …

The sign of worker remittances in growth regressions is heavily disputed in the literature. Comparing two growth … the variance inflation factors (VIF). In our case the variance inflation factor for remittances depends on the use of a … of remittances is positive. …

have the largest impact of remittances on savings. Their remittances account for about 2% of the steady-state level of GDP … variables of this sample. As savings react much more strongly than investment an important benefit of remittances is that less …Remittances may have an impact on economic growth through channels to physical and human capital. We estimate two …

shows permanent effects, which are positive only for China. In the poor countries, investment, remittances, savings, tax …. The reduced growth has a direct or indirect impact on the convergence issue, aid, remittances, labour force growth …, investment and savings, net foreign debt, migration, tax revenues, public expenditure on education and literacy. We estimate …

We provide regressions for the net immigration flows of developing countries. We show that (i) savings finance … emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows …